At the time, Operation Just Cause was the largest and most complex combat operation since the Vietnam War. Nearly 26,000 combat troops deployed, with just under half being from bases in the United ...

Operation Just Cause: A Historical Analysis . On September 7, 2007, seventeen years after Manuel Noriega's violent removal from power in Panama, a legal order for his release was issued in Miami ...

On January 31, 1990, 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 ...

A C-130E Hercules aircraft from the 934th Tactical Airlift Group, U.S. Air Force Reserve, flies along the coast while returning to Howard Air Force Base, Panama, during Operation Just Cause.

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 ...