Operation Just Cause: The U.S. Invasion Of Panama, 1989

In 1989 the US military launched an invasion of Panama to oust erstwhile ally General Manuel Noriega. Despite once having had close ties with US intelligence organisations, by the mid 1980s relations had soured as Noriega removed democratically elected President Nicolas Ardito Barletta, and was indicted by the US for drug trafficking. Operation Just Cause examines the wider history of Panama and its complex relationship with the US up to the eve of the invasion, and the military regimes that ruled between 1968 and 1989, before looking in depth at the Panama Defense Force and the overwhelming US military machine that would be unleashed against them. The invasion itself and its aftermath are described in detail. Operation Just Cause is illustrated throughout with original photographs and includes the @War series' signature colour artworks. AUTHOR: Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia was born in Asunción, Paraguay on 14 May 1960. He graduated from the Catholic University of Asunción where he got a B.A. in Clinical Psychology. He also took specialized English courses at Tulane University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and San Diego State University in California. He is now retired but worked for nearly 40 years as an English Teacher and one of the Academic Coordinators at the Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano (CCPA), a binational institute in Asunción. Married with two children, he resides in the capital. He is an Aviation Historian who wrote more than 500 articles in specialized magazines and web pages on the Paraguayan Aviation history, and has given numerous lectures in schools, universities, institutes, military and civil institutions in Paraguay and abroad. Since 2004 he has been an aviation history professor in the Paraguayan Air Force (FAP). He has published thirty books since 1996, being this one his eighteenth with Helion. In May 2024, he was appointed Correspondent Academician at the Paraguayan Academy of History. He received a total of seven decorations for his academic merits, two from Argentina, one from Brazil and four from his own country, Paraguay. 92 colour photos, 24 colour profiles, 6 colour maps, 33 b/w photos, 16 tables