Synopsis
The author wrote the book on U.S. Involvement in Grenada in 1983 to increase his knowledge about the subject because he had been in the U.S. Army from May 1985 to May 1987, and he and met several men who had fought in this battle. Then U.S. President Ronald Reagan viewed the small Caribbean island of Grenada with alarm because it was officially a Marxist country, and Grenada had as its allies as Cuba and the then former Soviet Union. However, Maurice Bishop was a popular leader, but when he was killed by his rivals on October 19, 1983, this gave Ragan an excuse to invade it because Reagan felt that the new leaders such as Hudson Austin would seek a stronger relationship with Cuba and the Soviet Union, Also the other thing that alarmed Reagan was that there were 600 medical students on Grenada, and Reagan was afraid of another Iran hostage occurring. (Starting in 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and seized fifty-two American hostages and held these American hostages for 444 days). That is why when America launched its attack on Grenada it went in with overwhelming force with between 7,000 to 8,000 American troops while there were 700 Cuban troops and anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 Grenadian soldiers. The battle would start on October 25, 1983, continue on October 26, 1983, and end on October 27, 1983.