This is the first in a new Quincy Institute/Responsible Statecraft project series highlighting the writing and reporting of U.S. military veterans. Click here for more information. When the red ...

Havana (CNN) — A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator ...

To protect its vital national interests, the United States maintained a large military presence in the Panama Canal throughout the 20th century and should anything threaten that, they would be primed ...

Washington’s 1989 invasion of Panama is often invoked as a model for dealing with Nicolás Maduro today. But the analogy goes only so far. In Panama, U.S. forces were already stationed in the Canal ...

General Colin Powell (C), head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, tours 05 January 1990 the bombed courtyard of the Panaminian Defense Force Comandancia in Panama City to review US troops and receive a ...