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Government's pursuit of Pancho Villa a lesson in hunting for terrorists
2001
Overview
The leader of the 1916 attack on Columbus was Mexican Gen. Francisco \"Pancho\" Villa. He had allied his \"Villistas\" with the effort of Venustiano Carranza to successfully overthrow the ruling government of Mexico in 1910. Once in power, Carranza decided [Villa] was no longer an asset. The revolutionary had become an outlaw. With nowhere to go and running out of supplies, Pancho Villa eventually was pushed toward Mexico's northern border with the United States. The preliminary orders were to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. The Army's chief of staff, Gen. Hugh L. Scott, asked Secretary of War Newton D. Baker if the United States was declaring war on one man. Baker clarified the order to read that the United States wanted Villa's \"band captured or destroyed.\" Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing, later commander in chief of American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, led the expedition into Mexico. The U.S. troops, including the 10th Cavalry \"Buffalo Soldiers,\" an African-American force, suffered greatly from the harsh elements and poor mechanization, but not from Villa's terrorists. They destroyed Pancho Villa's band and the terrorist threat against the United States.
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