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Jul 29, 2022 · The mission resulted in sweeping changes in policy, including reorganizing all U.S. Army Spec Ops units under the U.S. Army 1st Special Operations Command and creating a doctrine for low-intensity conflict. The battle for Grenada was the first inter-service combat for the U.S. military in years.
On 25 October, the combined forces of the United States and the Regional Security System (RSS) based in Barbados invaded Grenada in an operation codenamed Operation Urgent Fury. The United States insisted this was being done at the request of Barbados' Prime Minister Tom Adams and Dominica's Prime Minister Eugenia Charles.
One group made a successful reconnaissance of the island’s northeast coast, which convinced planners that the beaches were unsuitable for landing. The Marines would have to go in by helicopter. Another group of SEALs captured Grenada’s radio station, but were driven out by a strong counterattack.
Most Americans who remember Operation Urgent Fury—the October 1983 U.S.-led invasion of Grenada—recall it as a contingency action to protect U.S. citizens on a tropical island then in the throes of a bloody power struggle.
The U.S. invasion of Grenada (October 25, 1983) was a U.S.-led military operation to overthrow a military government in the Caribbean country of Grenada.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 25, 1983 · Grenada was supposed to be a simple operation. U.S. intelligence analysts had predicted little or no resistance from the Cubans working on the island and only token opposition from the PRA, the People’s Revolutionary Army.
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Oct 25, 2017 · But in U.S. military history the invasion of Grenada turned out to be a very big deal indeed because the post-mortem on the inter-service bickering and lack of communication led directly to reforms and a new kind of cooperative warfare bearing more than tropical fruit today.
