Talk:National Guard (Nicaragua)

POV
I have added a POV tag to this article. It reads to me as an apologia for the National Guard, which is bad for two reasons: (1) the obvious bias issues, but also (2) someone who knows nothing about the history of Nicaragua won't understand it at all. It reads like one-half of a discussion, one that assumes that people are already aware of the point of view being refuted.


 * The last editor put a pro-Guard spin on the article, for instance replacing a reference to corruption and brutality with claims of "excellent military discipline" and "incredible military superiority." Although reverting to the prior version would be easy, a case could be made that the earlier version was a little biased against the Guard, and I feel the article has some other shortcomings that I hadn't gotten around to, so I haven't undone the changes yet. -- Groggy Dice T | C 23:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. The last paragraph refers to them as the "Glorious National Guard" and claims the Red Cross assissted in the muder of Guard members.  If I recall correctly, the only misuse of the Red Cross was when planes were marked with Red Cross emblems to smuggle members of the Guard and Somozan leadership out of the country, which is in fact a war crime.



Bias
This article is biased almost to point of being ironically hysterical...

The "glorious" National Guard was the "finest fighting machine" in the Americas during the 1970s? Highly doubtful. While the Sadanistas clearly were getting more weapons and ammunition, the historical record is clear that the National Guard was defeated in the field and gave much ground in 1979. While I've not researched much on this subject, I was under the impression that they were little more than what "Jane's Defense" would describe as a "constabulary force" designed for internal security, and rife with political bias and corruption, unable to sustain any serious military operations even within the borders of Nicaragua, much less outside it.

Very Good Rewrite
I would like to commend whomever rewrote this article. Vastly superior to the previous one I read three or four years ago... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.180.233.48 (talk) 11:55, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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Potential references
These references were in the references section but do not correspond to any footnotes. Unclear if they are general references or what. I moved them here. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:29, 12 August 2021 (UTC)