WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Dec. 4, 2014) -- Twenty-five years ago this month on Dec. 20, 1989, U.S. forces commenced combat operations in Panama as part of Operation Just Cause. The operation ...

Operation Just Cause, the United States' invasion of Panama, was a long time coming. Critics of the invasion denounced it as an illegal military action, but the U.S. cited evidence Panamanian ...

Early preparation and training, beginning in May 1989, represented a key for success of Operation Just Cause. The 193rd Infantry Brigade, the primary combat unit stationed near Panama City ...

the US invasion of Panama – dubbed Operation Just Cause – officially came to a close. While the US military has consistently lowballed the Panamanian death count of the short-lived affair ...

This was certainly the case for Operation JUST CAUSE. As we look back on decades of perpetual conflict and consider the path that brought us here, it is hard to look at the invasion of Panama as ...

Crews of AC-130H Spectre gunships that participated in the U.S. military intervention of Panama in 1989, called “Operation Just Cause”, returned to Hurlburt Field, Florida, from where they ...

From late 1989 to early 1990, the US invaded Panama under the guise of human rights and drug control, and fought a blitzkrieg codenamed "Operation Just Cause." It took only 15 hours for the US ...

EL CHORRILLO, Panama – At the top of a hill in this ... For people in this neighborhood, the U.S. invasion, known as Operation Just Cause, was a dividing line in their lives.

Operation Just Cause, a 1989 military intervention ... While the US more or less accepted handing control of the canal over to Panama, it maintained a consistent presence of troops there.