Operation Urgent Fury: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(Rescuing 0 sources and tagging 2 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)) |
m (Reverted edits by InternetArchiveBot (talk) to last revision by Robkelk) Tag: Rollback |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Useful Notes}} |
|||
<!DOCTYPE html> |
|||
{{quote|''"The United Nations deeply deplores the armed intervention in Grenada, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of that State."''|'''United Nations on [[Operation Urgent Fury]]'''}} |
|||
<html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr"> |
|||
<head> |
|||
[[Operation Urgent Fury]] (also known as the Invasion of Grenada) was the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean island of [[Grenada]] - a nation with a population of just over 100,000 - by the [[United States of America]]. |
|||
<meta charset="UTF-8"/> |
|||
<title>Login required - All The Tropes</title> |
|||
Grenada gained independence from the [[United Kingdom]] in 1974, but a 1979 revolution by the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement suspended the constitution and invited [[Cuba]]n military forces into the island. After a 1983 internal power struggle ended with the deposition and execution of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the invasion began on October 25, 1983. A combined force of troops from the United States (nearly 10,000 troops), [[Jamaica]] and members of the Regional Security System (approximately 300 troops) defeated Grenadan and Cuban resistance and the military government of Hudson Austin was deposed. |
|||
<script>document.documentElement.className = document.documentElement.className.replace( /(^|\s)client-nojs(\s|$)/, "$1client-js$2" );</script> |
|||
<script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgCanonicalNamespace":"Special","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":"Badtitle","wgNamespaceNumber":-1,"wgPageName":"Special:Badtitle","wgTitle":"Badtitle","wgCurRevisionId":0,"wgRevisionId":0,"wgArticleId":0,"wgIsArticle":false,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":[],"wgBreakFrames":true,"wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgMonthNamesShort":["","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"],"wgRelevantPageName":"Special:Badtitle","wgRelevantArticleId":0,"wgRequestId":"3757ed3dc3848687c97ad9ad","wgIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgBetaFeaturesFeatures":[],"wgWikiEditorEnabledModules":[],"wgCategoryTreePageCategoryOptions":"{\"mode\":0,\"hideprefix\":20,\"showcount\":true,\"namespaces\":false}","wgCollapsibleVectorEnabledModules":{"collapsiblenav":true,"experiments":true},"wgMetrolookEnabledModules":{"collapsiblenav":true},"wgPreferredVariant":"en","wgMFExpandAllSectionsUserOption":true,"wgMFEnableFontChanger":true,"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":false,"nearby":false,"watchlist":false,"tagline":false},"wgMediaViewerOnClick":false,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsShouldSendModuleToUser":true,"wgPopupsConflictsWithNavPopupGadget":false,"wgRelatedArticles":null,"wgRelatedArticlesUseCirrusSearch":false,"wgRelatedArticlesOnlyUseCirrusSearch":false,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en","usePageImages":true,"usePageDescriptions":false},"wgNoticeProject":"open","wgCentralNoticeCookiesToDelete":[],"wgCentralNoticeCategoriesUsingLegacy":["Fundraising","fundraising"],"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"wgVisualEditorToolbarScrollOffset":0,"wgVisualEditorUnsupportedEditParams":["undo","undoafter","veswitched"],"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":false});mw.loader.state({"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.site.styles":"ready","ext.gadget.NoSmallFonts":"ready","site.styles":"ready","noscript":"ready","user.styles":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"ready","user.tokens":"loading","ext.socialprofile.responsive":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","mediawiki.legacy.shared":"ready","mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint":"ready","mediawiki.sectionAnchor":"ready","mediawiki.skinning.interface":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.site":"ready"});mw.loader.implement("user.tokens@1ogqjqd",function($,jQuery,require,module){/*@nomin*/mw.user.tokens.set({"editToken":"+\\","patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); |
|||
The United States cited the communist presence (particularly of Cuban military forces) as a justification to invade. They supported this claim by citing the alliance between the Grenadan regime and Castroite Cuba and the construction of airstrip they considered suspicious because it was too long for the civilian use it was nominally claimed to be for but long enough to base Soviet-make heavy bombers off of. The true justification for the invasion was stated to be the presence of a hotel near the airstrip housing a few US students, and the supposed risk that they faced. |
|||
});mw.loader.load(["site","mediawiki.page.startup","mediawiki.user","mediawiki.hidpi","mediawiki.page.ready","mediawiki.searchSuggest","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","ext.collapsiblevector.collapsibleNav","ext.eventLogging.subscriber","ext.gadget.ATTSiteCode","ext.gadget.Altredirects","ext.gadget.purgetab","ext.gadget.Auto_Complete","ext.gadget.HotLicense","ext.gadget.Edittools","ext.hideSection","ext.popups","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","skins.vector.js"]);});</script> |
|||
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.socialprofile.responsive%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.sectionAnchor%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cskins.vector.styles&only=styles&skin=vector"/> |
|||
The invasion rapidly deposed the communist regime, and instituted a provisional government under American occupation. 160 Grenadian soldiers and 71 Cubans were killed in the invasion, originally reported as 59 total by American forces. The American military assault was, however, unorganized in and cited many places to improve. |
|||
<script async="" src="/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector"></script> |
|||
<meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""/> |
|||
The [[United Nations]] General Assembly condemned the act by a vote of 122 to 9. The invasion was claimed to be an obvious violation of international law, and Britain, [[China]], the [[USSR]] and [[Canada]] in particular condemned the act for displaying a complete disregard by the American government for international law. Specifically, British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher was bothered as President Ronald Reagan had personally assured her the United States would not invade Grenada mere days before doing so. [[Berserk Button|Arguments still rage today over the issue.]] |
|||
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.gadget.NoSmallFonts&only=styles&skin=vector"/> |
|||
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector"/> |
|||
The airport that was "too long for civilian use" was completed in 1984, is used for civilian aircraft, and is just as long as was planned for before the invasion. |
|||
<meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.31.1"/> |
|||
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> |
|||
{{reflist}} |
|||
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"/> |
|||
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] |
|||
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"/> |
|||
[[Category:Hollywood History]] |
|||
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/opensearch_desc.php" title="All The Tropes (en)"/> |
|||
[[Category:Military and Warfare Tropes]] |
|||
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="https://allthetropes.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"/> |
|||
[[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] |
|||
<link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"/> |
|||
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="All The Tropes Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"/> |
|||
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.miraheze.org"/> |
|||
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=html5shiv&only=scripts&skin=vector&sync=1"></script><![endif]--> |
|||
</head> |
|||
<body class="mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns--1 ns-special mw-special-Badtitle page-Special_Badtitle rootpage-Special_Badtitle skin-vector action-view"> <div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div> |
|||
<div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div> |
|||
<div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"> |
|||
<a id="top"></a> |
|||
<div id="siteNotice" class="mw-body-content"><!-- CentralNotice --></div><div class="mw-indicators mw-body-content"> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Login required</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> |
|||
<div id="contentSub"></div> |
|||
<div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump"> |
|||
Jump to: <a href="#mw-head">navigation</a>, <a href="#p-search">search</a> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="mw-content-text">Please <a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Operation+Urgent+Fury&returntoquery=action%3Draw" title="Special:UserLogin">log in</a> to view other pages.<p id="mw-returnto">Return to <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>.</p> |
|||
<noscript><img src="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" title="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;" /></noscript></div> <div class="printfooter"> |
|||
Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Badtitle">https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Badtitle{{Dead link}}</a>" </div> |
|||
<div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> <div class="visualClear"></div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="mw-navigation"> |
|||
<h2>Navigation menu</h2> |
|||
<div id="mw-head"> |
|||
<div id="p-personal" role="navigation" class="" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-personal-label">Personal tools</h3> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
<li id="pt-login-private"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Operation+Urgent+Fury&returntoquery=action%3Draw" title="You need to log in to use this wiki [o]" accesskey="o">Log in</a></li> </ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="left-navigation"> |
|||
<div id="p-namespaces" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-namespaces-label">Namespaces</h3> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
<li id="ca-nstab-special" class="selected"><span><a href="/w/index.php?action=raw&title=Operation+Urgent+Fury" title="This is a special page, and it cannot be edited">Special page</a></span></li> </ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="p-variants" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label"> |
|||
<input type="checkbox" class="vectorMenuCheckbox" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" /> |
|||
<h3 id="p-variants-label"> |
|||
<span>Variants</span> |
|||
</h3> |
|||
<div class="menu"> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
</ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="right-navigation"> |
|||
<div id="p-views" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-views-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-views-label">Views</h3> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
</ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="p-cactions" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label"> |
|||
<input type="checkbox" class="vectorMenuCheckbox" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label" /> |
|||
<h3 id="p-cactions-label"><span>More</span></h3> |
|||
<div class="menu"> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
</ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="p-search" role="search"> |
|||
<h3> |
|||
<label for="searchInput">Search</label> |
|||
</h3> |
|||
<form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform"> |
|||
<div id="simpleSearch"> |
|||
<input type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search All The Tropes" title="Search All The Tropes [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput"/><input type="hidden" value="Special:Search" name="title"/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" title="Search the pages for this text" id="mw-searchButton" class="searchButton mw-fallbackSearchButton"/><input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" title="Go to a page with this exact name if it exists" id="searchButton" class="searchButton"/> </div> |
|||
</form> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="mw-panel"> |
|||
<div id="p-logo" role="banner"><a class="mw-wiki-logo" href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page"></a></div> |
|||
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-navigation" aria-labelledby="p-navigation-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-navigation-label">Navigation</h3> |
|||
<div class="body"> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
<li id="n-Home-Page"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page">Home Page</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Community-Portal"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Community_Portal">ATT Community Portal</a></li><li id="n-recentchanges"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes in the wiki [r]" accesskey="r">Recent changes</a></li><li id="n-randompage"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Load a random page [x]" accesskey="x">Random page</a></li><li id="n-MediaWiki-Help"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents">MediaWiki Help</a></li><li id="n-Upload-file"><a href="/wiki/Special:Upload">Upload file</a></li> </ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troper_Tools" aria-labelledby="p-Troper_Tools-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-Troper_Tools-label">Troper Tools</h3> |
|||
<div class="body"> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
<li id="n-User-Blogs"><a href="/wiki/Special:ArticlesHome">User Blogs</a></li><li id="n-Newest-Blog-Posts"><a href="/wiki/Special:ArticleLists">Newest Blog Posts</a></li><li id="n-Write-a-Blog-Post"><a href="/wiki/Special:CreateBlogPost">Write a Blog Post</a></li><li id="n-Follow-Your-Friends"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserActivity">Follow Your Friends</a></li><li id="n-See-Friends.2FFoes"><a href="/wiki/Special:ViewRelationshipRequests">See Friends/Foes</a></li><li id="n-View-Your-Messages"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserBoard">View Your Messages</a></li><li id="n-See-Your-Gifts"><a href="/wiki/Special:ViewGifts">See Your Gifts</a></li><li id="n-Gift-a-Friend"><a href="/wiki/Special:GiveGift">Gift a Friend</a></li> </ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troping_Utilities" aria-labelledby="p-Troping_Utilities-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-Troping_Utilities-label">Troping Utilities</h3> |
|||
<div class="body"> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
<li id="n-ATT-Page-Creator"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:ATT_Page_Creator">ATT Page Creator</a></li><li id="n-Trope-Workshop"><a href="/wiki/Category:Trope_Workshop">Trope Workshop</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Forums"><a href="/wiki/Special:WikiForum">ATT Forums</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Forums-.28old.29"><a href="/wiki/Forum:All_The_Tropes">ATT Forums (old)</a></li><li id="n-ATT-WebChat-.28IRC.29"><a href="/wiki/Special:WebChat">ATT WebChat (IRC)</a></li><li id="n-ATT-WebChat-.28onwiki.29"><a href="/wiki/Special:Chat">ATT WebChat (onwiki)</a></li><li id="n-Troper-Userboxes"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Userboxes">Troper Userboxes</a></li><li id="n-Mechanics-of-Writing"><a href="/wiki/Mechanics_of_Writing">Mechanics of Writing</a></li> </ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troper_Social_Networks" aria-labelledby="p-Troper_Social_Networks-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-Troper_Social_Networks-label">Troper Social Networks</h3> |
|||
<div class="body"> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
<li id="n-ATT-Twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/ATTropes" rel="nofollow">ATT Twitter</a></li><li id="n-ATT-subreddit"><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AllTheTropes/" rel="nofollow">ATT subreddit</a></li> </ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-tb" aria-labelledby="p-tb-label"> |
|||
<h3 id="p-tb-label">Tools</h3> |
|||
<div class="body"> |
|||
<ul> |
|||
<li id="t-specialpages"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q">Special pages</a></li><li id="t-print"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle&action=raw&printable=yes" rel="alternate" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p">Printable version</a></li><li id="t-urlshortener"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fallthetropes.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DSpecial%3ABadtitle%26action%3Draw">Get shortened URL</a></li> </ul> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> |
|||
<ul id="footer-places"> |
|||
<li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="//meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy" class="extiw" title="m:Privacy Policy">Privacy policy</a></li> |
|||
<li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:About" title="All The Tropes:About">About All The Tropes</a></li> |
|||
<li id="footer-places-disclaimer"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:General_disclaimer" title="All The Tropes:General disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> |
|||
<li id="footer-places-termsofservice"><a href="//meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="m:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a></li> |
|||
<li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle&action=raw&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile{{Dead link}}" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> |
|||
</ul> |
|||
<ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> |
|||
<li id="footer-copyrightico"> |
|||
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img src="https://meta.miraheze.org/w/resources/assets/licenses/cc-by-sa.png" alt="Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li> |
|||
<li id="footer-poweredbyico"> |
|||
<a href="//www.mediawiki.org/"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" srcset="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_132x47.png 1.5x, /w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_176x62.png 2x" width="88" height="31"/></a><a href="https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/"><img src="https://static.miraheze.org/metawiki/7/7e/Powered_by_Miraheze.png" alt="Miraheze Wiki Hosting" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li> |
|||
</ul> |
|||
<div style="clear: both;"></div> |
|||
</div> |
|||
<!-- Matomo --> |
|||
<script type="text/javascript"> |
|||
var _paq = _paq || []; |
|||
_paq.push(["trackPageView"]); |
|||
_paq.push(["enableLinkTracking"]); |
|||
(function() { |
|||
var u = "https://matomo.miraheze.org/"; |
|||
var globalId = 1; |
|||
_paq.push(["setTrackerUrl", u + "piwik.php"]); |
|||
_paq.push(['setDocumentTitle', "allthetropeswiki" + " - " + "Special:Badtitle"]); |
|||
_paq.push(["setSiteId", "2"]); |
|||
_paq.push(["setCustomVariable", 1, "userType", "Anonymous", "visit"]); |
|||
if ( globalId ) { |
|||
_paq.push(['addTracker', u + "piwik.php", globalId]); |
|||
} |
|||
var d=document, g=d.createElement("script"), s=d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; g.type="text/javascript"; |
|||
g.defer=true; g.async=true; g.src=u+"piwik.js"; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s); |
|||
})(); |
|||
</script> |
|||
<!-- End Matomo Code --> |
|||
<!-- Matomo Image Tracker --> |
|||
<noscript><p><img src="https://matomo.miraheze.org/piwik.php?idsite=2&rec=1&action_name=Special:Badtitle" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript> |
|||
<!-- End Matomo --><script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":140,"wgHostname":"mw2"});});</script> |
|||
</body> |
|||
</html> |
|||
Revision as of 00:00, 27 October 2018
 |
"The United Nations deeply deplores the armed intervention in Grenada, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of that State."
—United Nations on Operation Urgent Fury
|
 |
Operation Urgent Fury (also known as the Invasion of Grenada) was the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean island of Grenada - a nation with a population of just over 100,000 - by the United States of America.
Grenada gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1974, but a 1979 revolution by the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement suspended the constitution and invited Cuban military forces into the island. After a 1983 internal power struggle ended with the deposition and execution of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the invasion began on October 25, 1983. A combined force of troops from the United States (nearly 10,000 troops), Jamaica and members of the Regional Security System (approximately 300 troops) defeated Grenadan and Cuban resistance and the military government of Hudson Austin was deposed.
The United States cited the communist presence (particularly of Cuban military forces) as a justification to invade. They supported this claim by citing the alliance between the Grenadan regime and Castroite Cuba and the construction of airstrip they considered suspicious because it was too long for the civilian use it was nominally claimed to be for but long enough to base Soviet-make heavy bombers off of. The true justification for the invasion was stated to be the presence of a hotel near the airstrip housing a few US students, and the supposed risk that they faced.
The invasion rapidly deposed the communist regime, and instituted a provisional government under American occupation. 160 Grenadian soldiers and 71 Cubans were killed in the invasion, originally reported as 59 total by American forces. The American military assault was, however, unorganized in and cited many places to improve.
The United Nations General Assembly condemned the act by a vote of 122 to 9. The invasion was claimed to be an obvious violation of international law, and Britain, China, the USSR and Canada in particular condemned the act for displaying a complete disregard by the American government for international law. Specifically, British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher was bothered as President Ronald Reagan had personally assured her the United States would not invade Grenada mere days before doing so. Arguments still rage today over the issue.
The airport that was "too long for civilian use" was completed in 1984, is used for civilian aircraft, and is just as long as was planned for before the invasion.