The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management, June 1987-December 1989 (Paperback)This history examines the Panama crisis from June 1987 to December 1989 not simply as a prelude to Operation Just Cause but as a case study in its own right - as an extended series of interrelated actions and issues that U.S. military personnel had to confront on a daily basis in a process that imparted no sense of inevitability as to the outcome. |
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