The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management June 1987-December 1989

by U.S. Army Center of Military History and U.S. Army Center of Military History

Prior to Operation JUST CAUSE, the December 1989 U.S. intervention in Panama, American leaders had struggled for over two years with the increasingly difficult regime of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. At the time, the Panama Canal was still under U.S. administration with the U.S. Southern Command, based at Quarry Heights, charged with its security. Led by General Frederick Woerner and seconded by Maj. Gen. Bernard Loeffke, the command's Army component...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508662142
• ISBN13: 9781508662143
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"