Alone Quote by Bill Alexander

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru,…

— Stephen Kinzer

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need…

— Bill Alexander

“Widespread violence against civilians also demonstrated that the Spanish Civil War was, sadly enough, not a unique case in modern history: such terror has…

— Geoffrey Jensen

During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin America, guerrilla…

— Juan Manuel Santos

“And in a more general context, after World War I, many air force leaders had come to see civilians as legitimate targets, often advocating…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“Like more than a few of his colleagues, he believed the Spanish army—or at least the sector of the army that shared his outlook—to…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“a crucial element of English success was their commanders’ ability to learn on the fly, make adjustments, and attempt new tactics. The Spanish paid…

— Max Boot

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

“I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated…

— Christopher Hitchens

[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco at the…

— Noam Chomsky

[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out land reform,…

— Noam Chomsky

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make…

— H. L. Mencken