-DATE- 19831104 -YEAR- 1983 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- INTERVIEW -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- CASTRO ON DEFENSE CAPABILITIES -PLACE- CUBA -SOURCE- HAVANA INTL SERVICE -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19831107 -TEXT- Castro on Defense Capabilities PA050249 Havana International Service in Spanish 0000 GMT 4 Nov 83 [Station commentary] [Excerpt] In October, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro reviewed the success rate of the Bastion 83 strategic exercise, which took place from 20-23 June 183 throughout Cuba. An official note released in Havana points out that Castro analyzed those maneuvers in depth and described them as a momentous step in Cuba's defense preparedness and in the Cuban revolution's enhanced capacity to resist, repel, and survive any form of military aggression that U.S. imperialism might unleash against it. Fidel Castro said that Bastion 83 is the first step toward improved quality in Cuba's defensive preparedness, which will make every citizen a soldier in a war that will be the entire people's war. The Bastion 83 strategic exercises were only a small sample of that the Cuban people would be capable of it the enemies of the Cuban revolution dared attack our nation, if they dared put one foot on this land where for the past 25 years we have been building a new society for which tens of thousands of Cubans have sacrificed their lives. -END-