President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuela is the latest in a long saga of U.S. intervention in the region that is ...
As President Biden faces the most difficult international crisis of his administration, he might take some inspiration from his predecessor President Ronald Reagan, who 40 years ago today put boots on ...
In October 1983, US troops invaded Grenada, a small island in the Caribbean. While it was an overall success, the operation had missteps that lead to failures and casualties. Those problems helped ...
With this poem, George Lamming, Barbadian novelist and poet, ended his address at a December 1983 memorial service in Trinidad for Maurice Bishop, Jacqueline Creft, Norris Bain, Vincent Noel, Unison ...
In October 1983, the United States led a surprise invasion of Grenada, citing the need to rescue American students and restore order after a violent Marxist coup. Operation Urgent Fury saw U.S. forces ...
Wesley L. McDonald, 84, a four-star Navy admiral who commanded the 1983 invasion of Grenada for the U.S. military and who as a pilot led the first air strike against North Vietnam in 1964 after the ...
Veterans of active duty in October 1983 who were personally involved in the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon or the U.S. invasion of the island of Grenada are wanted by the ...
Mention the tiny spice island in the Caribbean to any American who remembers Ronald Reagan's presidency, and the inevitable question you'll get is, "Isn't that the country we invaded?" Yes, the United ...
Joseph Metcalf III, the Navy vice admiral who led the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean nation of Grenada in 1983, which produced lasting lessons for military preparation and media relations, died March ...
User-Created Clip by tgrane November 27, 2018 2018-11-27T12:14:49-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1f7/123654-m.jpgSenator Lowell Weicker (R-CT) discussed the ...
While it may not be Clint Eastwood's most popular film, Heartbreak Ridge seems like the kind of military drama that his fans would love. This 1986 film was a loose retelling of the events that led up ...