Inter-American Peacekeeping Force

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Honduran soldiers of the Inter-American Peacekeeping Force arrive in the Dominican Republic, 1965.

The Inter-American Peace Force (English Inter-American Peace Force , IAPF ) was approved by the Organization of American States on 23 May 1965, after the intervention of the United States in the Dominican Republic was founded. For the most part, it consisted of over 42,600 members of the United States ' armed forces , plus the following troops from various countries:

Brazil - 1130
Honduras - 250
Paraguay - 184
Nicaragua - 160
Costa Rica - 21 military policemen
El Salvador - 3 staff officers

In 1966, Brazil finally took over the IAPF from the United States and the IAPF was dissolved in 1967.

See also

Peacekeeping

Web links

82nd Airborne History Page ( Memento of May 2, 2001 on the Internet Archive ) - Operation Power Pack: A “Road” Test for the 82nd Airborne Division
A. Timothy Warnock: Dominican Crisis: Operation POWER PACK. Short of War: Major USA Contingency Operations. Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000, pp. 63-74.
Dominican Republic PSYOP , report by SGM Herbert A. Friedman (ret.)