- Preface 1 Introduction 7
- 1. 39 Hours to "Go" 9
- 2. Everyone Goes Late 40
- 3. Nine Chalks to Chaos 54
- 4. SEALs Besieged 69
- 5. Rangers Seize Salines 78
- 6. Rescuing the Rescuers 93
- 7. Rescuing the Students 107
- 8. The Enemy Is Us 115
- 9. The Enemy Is the Media 134 10.The Enemy Is Cuba 144 11.The Route to Intervention 160 12.Securing the Victory 187 Chapter Notes 223 Bibliography 243 Index 249.
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In the fall of 1983, arguably the coldest year of the decades-long Cold War, the world's greatest superpower invaded Grenada, a Marxist-led Caribbean nation the size of Atlanta. Why and how this unlikely one-week war was waged was shrouded in secrecy at the time-and has remained so ever since. This book is a long overdue scholarly reconsideration of Operation Urgent Fury, based on historical evidence that only recently has been revealed in declassified documents, unheralded oral history interviews and unnoticed memoir accounts. This curated telling also offers a fresh view of the subject by unspooling the tangled story of the invasion in an accessible style. A chronological narrative emphasizes the human dimension of a sudden crisis now regarded as the greatest foreign policy challenge of President Ronald Reagan's first term. Because the American response was hastily drafted, many snafus and accidents marked the chaotic initial days of the operation when the international press was forcibly denied access to the battlefields by U.S. forces. Inevitably it fell to individual soldiers, aviators and sailors to correct situations arising from faulty intelligence, excessive secrecy or poor coordination. This work recounts their inspiring, underreported stories in filling out a more complete picture of the Grenada invasion.
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