The Cuban Missile Crisis: JFK's Second Shot at Cuba Although some historians have blamed Soviet aggression for the crisis Cuban Missile Crisis, they neglected to account for the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis. disruption in relations between the United States and Cuba caused by the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion led by President John F. Kennedy. The failure of the Bay of Pigs can be attributed to Kennedy's overreliance on the military, even though the CIA knew that American forces would be vastly outnumbered. Thus, when Kennedy received news of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba in October 1962, the crisis was only the continuation of an unresolved conflict. Fearing nuclear war, the Kennedy administration carefully considered possible approaches. The United States considered an airstrike, invasion, or naval quarantine an appropriate response to this crisis. Although members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) initially considered decisive military action, Kennedy, reflecting on his executive decisions during the Bay of Pigs invasion, decided not to attack militarily. Although the invasion had sparked hostility between the United States and Cuba, it was essential in convincing Kennedy that relying on the military and top CIA officials was not always an effective way to manage conflicts. Lessons learned from the Bay of Pigs invasion saved the United States from crisis by prompting President Kennedy to consider military combat, an aggression that would have escalated into nuclear war, as a last resort to resolve the missile crisis from Cuba. Even though the Bay of Pigs was a disaster because Kennedy failed to consider the possibility of failure, the aftermath strongly influenced his administration to use military combat as a last resort in the middle of the paper ......e learned from the Bay of Swine Disaster. Unfortunately, Kennedy was pressured by senior CIA officials to approve a plan that was doomed from the start. And to make matters worse, Kennedy's lack of planning in anticipation of possible failure further doomed the exiles when he failed to provide any relief aid. After losing its foreign credibility in Latin America, the Kennedy administration continued its covert operations in hopes of vindicating itself. So when the Soviet missiles were discovered on October 16, Kennedy was far more experienced than he had been a year earlier. He realized the importance of preventing nuclear war and made an executive decision to negotiate rather than start a military conflict. Ironically, the Cuban Missile Crisis would never have happened if Kennedy had not executed the Bay of Pigs invasion. But Kennedy still had a second chance against Cuba.