Operation JUST CAUSE : The Incursion into Panama
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Petersen rated it it was ok. Thorough documentation of events This is a thorough documentation of events, totally lacking any personal insight. Strictly a technical military report, lacking any detail of specific encounters or personal experiences. Brenden Mullins rated it it was amazing Apr 24, However, the secrecy before initiation, the speed and success of the invasion itself, and U. Operation plans directed against Panama evolved from plans designed to defend the Panama Canal. They became more aggressive as the situation between the two nations deteriorated.
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The Prayer Book series of plans included rehearsals for a possible clash Operation Purple Storm and missions to secure U. Eventually, these plans became Operation Blue Spoon which was then, in order to sustain the perceived legitimacy of the invasion throughout the operation, renamed by The Pentagon to Operation Just Cause. The post-invasion civil-military operation designed to stabilize the situation, support the U. The original operation, in which U.
United States Southern Command [31] [32]. United States Marine Corps. United States Special Operations Command. United States Air Force. The military incursion into Panama began on 20 December , at 1: The operation involved 27, U. The operation began with an assault of strategic installations, such as the civilian Punta Paitilla Airport in Panama City and a PDF garrison and airfield at Rio Hato, where Noriega also maintained a residence.
Other military command centers throughout the country were also attacked. The attack on the central headquarters of the PDF referred to as La Comandancia touched off several fires, one of which destroyed most of the adjoining and heavily populated El Chorrillo neighborhood in downtown Panama City.
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Fort Amador was secured by elements of the 1st Battalion Airborne , th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and 59th Engineer Company sappers in a nighttime air assault which secured the fort in the early hours of 20 December. Fort Amador was a key position because of its relationship to the large oil farms adjacent to the canal, the Bridge of the Americas over the canal, and the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
Key command and control elements of the PDF were stationed there. Furthermore, Fort Amador had a large U. This position also protected the left flank of the attack on La Comandancia and the securing of the El Chorrillos neighbourhood, guarded by Dignity Battalions , Noriega supporters that the U. Military police units from Ft.
Bragg, North Carolina deployed via strategic airlift into Howard Air Force Base the next morning, and secured key government buildings in the downtown area of Panama City.
on the eve of the incursion, preparations were so thorough that oppos- ing forces on tion into Panama code-named Operation JUST CAUSE. Operation JUST CAUSE: The Incursion Into Panama. by R. Cody Phillips. To download as PDF click here [ mb ]. Some users may.
MPs seized PDF weapons, vehicles and supplies during house-to-house searches in the following days, and conducted urban combat operations against snipers and Dignity Battalion holdouts for the following week. A few hours after the invasion began, Guillermo Endara was sworn in at Fort Clayton. A platoon from the th Military Police Company , Missouri Army National Guard , which was on a routine two-week rotation to Panama was called upon to set up a detainee camp on Empire Range to handle the mass of civilian and military detainees.
They sank Noriega's boat and destroyed his jet, at a cost of four killed and nine wounded. Military operations continued for several weeks, mainly against military units of the Panamanian army. As initial forces moved to new objectives, follow-on forces from the 7th Infantry Division L moved into the western areas of Panama and into Panama City.
According to official Pentagon figures, Panamanians were killed during the invasion; however, an internal U. Army memo estimated the number at 1, The UN estimated deaths [40] whereas Americas Watch found that around civilians died. President Guillermo Endara said that "less than Panamanians" died during the entire invasion. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark estimated 3, civilian deaths. Figures estimating thousands of civilian casualties were widely rejected in Panama. The Roman Catholic Church estimated that Panamanians were killed in total.
Physicians for Human Rights , said it had received "reliable reports of more than civilian deaths" that were not included in the U.
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But in June , the U. Southern Command , then based on Quarry Heights in Panama, estimated the number of Panamanian military dead at , lower than its original estimate of Civilian fatalities included two American school teachers working in Panama for the Department of Defense Schools. They were Kandi Helin and Ray Dragseth. Rick Paul, the adult son of another teacher, was also killed by friendly fire as he ran an American road block. In June , his family filed a claim for wrongful death against the United States Government. Human Rights Watch 's report on Panama in the post-invasion aftermath stated that even with some uncertainties about the scale of civilian casualties, the figures are "still troublesome" because.
By themselves, these ratios suggest that the rule of proportionality and the duty to minimize harm to civilians, where doing so would not compromise a legitimate military objective, were not faithfully observed by the invading U. For us, the controversy over the number of civilian casualties should not obscure the important debate on the manner in which those people died.
The invasion of Panama provoked international outrage. Some countries charged that the U. On 29 December, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted 75—20, with 40 abstentions, to condemn the invasion as a flagrant violation of international law. On 22 December, the Organization of American States passed a resolution deploring the invasion and calling for withdrawal of U.
Special Forces who had entered the building. Peru recalled its ambassador from the U. Some claim that the Panamanian people overwhelmingly supported the invasion. Eighteen years after the invasion, Panama's National Assembly unanimously declared 20 December to be a day of national mourning.
Key command and control elements of the PDF were stationed there. Strictly a technical military report, lacking any detail of specific encounters or personal experiences. Fort Amador was secured by elements of the 1st Battalion Airborne , th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and 59th Engineer Company sappers in a nighttime air assault which secured the fort in the early hours of 20 December. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Justice Delayed is Justice Denied".
The resolution was vetoed by President Martin Torrijos. The Washington Post disclosed several rulings of the Office of Legal Counsel, issued shortly before the invasion, in regards to the U. One ruling interpreted an executive order which prohibits the assassination of foreign leaders as suggesting that accidental killings would be acceptable foreign policy.
Another ruling concluded that the Posse Comitatus Act of , which prohibits the armed forces from making arrests without Congressional authorization, is effective only within the boundaries of the U. The US government invoked self-defense as legal justification for its invasion of Panama. The justifications for invading given by the U. Articles 18 and 20 of the Charter of the Organization of American States , written in part in reaction to the history of US military interventions in Central America, also explicitly prohibit the use of force by member states: Article 20 of the OAS Charter states that "the territory of a states is inviolable; it may not be the object, even temporarily, of military occupation or of other measures of force taken by another state, directly or indirectly, on any grounds whatever.
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