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THE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR
How Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America a "shining city upon a hill."
On October 25th,1983 President Ronald Reagan launched one of the most successful invasions in modern American history. In four days, Operation Urgent Fury successfully liberated the Island of Grenada from communist forces and reinstated the democratically elected government. It was the first major American operation since Vietnam and the first victorious major military operation since World War II. And this monumental task almost came at the cost of the most important Cold War alliance: that between President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The urgency of action meant that the Prime Minister and close American ally was left out of the loop, publicly embarrassing for her and straining their relationship.
TURNING POINT: How the U.S. LIberation of Grenada Led to the Fall of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War reveals how America was able to invade a country, liberate it from a corrupt government that threatened stability in the Western hemisphere, and leave the potential for a prosperous future in the hands of its own people; it explores the greater picture of how Reagan avoided succumbing to interventionist nation-building and becoming an occupying force.
President Reagan's strategic success helped bring an end to the Cold War and is a much needed lesson for current American foreign policy.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS to TURNING POINT: How the U.S. LIberation of Grenada Led to the Fall of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War
by John Bachman
"Every president has to make sure that his secretary of state understands who is the president and who is the secretary of state"
—Dean Rusk
PART 1
THE SPREAD OF MARXISM IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Somoza's Assassintion and the Fall of Nicaragua
Grenada's Bloodless Revolution
Mexico's Tilt Towards Marxism
A Warning From Congress
REAGAN'S ELECTION
One Debate For All The Marbles
Why Reagan Ran, Again
The 1980 GOP Primary
President Carter's Primary Challenges
The Transition and the End of the Iran Hostage Crisis
Carter And El Salvador
The Inauguration
Reagan's First Televised Press Conference
THE RESIGNATION OF AL HAIG
"The Meanest Son of Bitch"
"I'm In Control Here
The Beginning of the End
"Remember, Everyone Stock Up on Vodka."
A "Nightmare" Trip to Europe & the 1982 War in Lebanon
China and Taiwan
The Final Straw
SOVIET GERONTOCRACY
The Ghosts of Stalin's Purge
Redefining Detente
Star Wars: The Strategic Defense Initiaitive
Operation RYAN
Soviet Response to The Strategic Defense Initiative
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
A Nuclear Scare
PART 2
GRENADA's DAYS OF TERROR
Flashpoint: Grenada
A Crisis Erupts - The Assassination Of Maurice Bishop
Bernard Coard's Back Story
The Cuban Connection
Days Of "Terror"
A HOSTAGE CRISIS IN AUGUSTA
Oct. 22, 1983
Contingency Plans
Skeptics
THE MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING IN BEIRUT
Oct 23rd, 1983
Margaret Thatcher Warns Reagan not to invade
Bud McFarlane
THE SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP
1967 Thatcher Tours the US, Reagan's California U.S. Itinerary
The Falklands War Reagan Calls for Ceasefire but the Iron Lady will have none of it
March 1983 The New Jewel Marxists started complaining about "U.S. Aggression"
PART 3
D-DAY MINUS 1
SEAL Team 6's First Mission Starts with Tragedy
The 82nd Airborne gets ready for "something"
The Green Light
D-DAY
Operation Urgent Fury
The "heavy" Fog of War
D DAY PLUS 1
A NATION WITH GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Flipping The Script
Top Gun Recruiting
Reagan's October 27th, 1983 Speech
THE APOLOGY & THE GOODBYE
"Don't Go Wobbly"
Margaret Thatcher's Eulogy of Reagan
