Ronald Reagan's Invasion Of Urgent Fury

Communism was slowly building up in the time after the Vietnam War. Soviet Union and the US were splitting up their alliance and most countries were still bouncing back after the recession. Ronald Reagan one the most iconic presidents to sit in the oval office was president at the time. Reagan’s skills got tested from the very start. Few days into his first term there was a huge bombing in Lebanon and just days after that a small Caribbean island started to lose its socialist views and gained communist ones. Reagan believed that dealing with the small island, Grenada, was equal value as dealing with the bombing. Much of the US was tentative on supporting their leader and his military after the US involvement in Vietnam. All faith in the US
Reagan jumped on Grenada faster than the At the time on the island of Grenada there was about 1000 American 800 were students studying at St. George’s University Medical School. Cuban military was slowly funneling into Grenada and time was not on the US’s side. Reagan was 100% sure what he had to act hence the name Urgent Fury, the mission name for the Invasion of Grenada. “The major justification for the invasion was the protection of American lives.”
Reagan wasn’t fully supported in following through with Urgent Fury primarily because there was very little intel of the area that the troops would be invading. The lack of scouting intelligence was the main downfall for invading Grenada and honestly the most hysterical. When arriving to Grenada the troops did not have a layout of the island and communications were not that good.
“American troops who hit the beaches on the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada exactly 30 years ago were bit players in a geopolitical comic opera. The invaders used photocopies of tourist maps, since the U.S. military had no maps of its own for the country. Communication was so confused that one officer had to call his base in North Carolina from a pay phone to request air
“"A lovely little war" was what one correspondent called the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. Most saw Operation Urgent Fury, its official name, as a guaranteed victory” Here is one of those who opposed his decision. This is a small piece from a New York Times article in 1982. “It was startling in the tense Middle East, where I spent last month, to hear the voice of President Reagan on the radio saying the situations in Lebanon and Grenada were ''closely related.''” The title of this article was, “GRENADA ISN'T LEBANON”, the title itself obviously shows disagreement with the actions and steady focus on Grenada instead of the servicemen that died in Beirut, their families, and a needed response to what happened in Lebanon. “If there is a common thread between Grenada and Lebanon, it is that local facts are decisive and can be ignored in favor of grandiose global rhetoric only at peril of