Military of Panama - Military Facilities of the United States in Panama, Military History of Panama, Panamanian Military Commanders (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Military facilities of the United States in Panama, Military history of Panama, Panamanian military commanders, Manuel Noriega, Omar Torrijos, Panamanian Public Forces, Hugo Spadafora, United States invasion of Panama, Howard Air Force Base, Albrook Air Force Station, Rio Hato Airport, Watermelon War, Coco Solo, Roberto Diaz Herrera, Fort Sherman, Fort Gulick, Fort Amador, The Panama Deception, Ruben Dario Paredes, Daniel Delgado, Esteban Huertas, Moises Giroldi, Fort Randolph, Fort Kobbe, Panama Canal Division, Fort Clayton, Florencio Flores Aguilar, List of United States Army installations in Panama, List of wars involving Panama. Excerpt: The United States Invasion of Panama, code-named Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989. It occurred during the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and ten years after the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were ratified to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama by the year 2000. During the invasion, de facto Panamanian leader, general, and dictator Manuel Noriega was deposed, president-elect Guillermo Endara sworn into office and the Panamanian Defense Force dissolved. The Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which set in motion the process of handing the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control, was signed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter and President of Panama Omar Torrijos on 7 September 1977. U.S. relations with General Noriega spanned the latter half of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union, when Noriega served as a U.S. intelligence asset and paid informant by the Central Intelligence Agency. Noriega worked as an asset for the US since 1967, including when Bush was head (1976-77) of the CIA. Noriega had sided in favor of the US rather than the USSR in Central America, ..