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JSOFSEA Operation Assignment

A starter guide to unclassifed, open source articles and books related to SOF operations

Articles

The US intervention in Panama
Source- Small Wars & Insurgencies

*This article can be requested through interlibrary loan*

"Just cause" or just politics? U.S. Panama invasion and standardizing qualitative tests for diversionary war
Source- Armed Forces & Society

Paving the way for Baghdad: The US invasion of Panama

The United States 1989 military intervention in Panama
Source-
Revista Academiei Forţelor Terestre

First flight: The U.S. Air Force's special tactics group in Panama
Source- Air Power History

Panama 1989: Deposing a dictator
Source- Small Wars & Insurgencies

*This article can be requested through interlibrary loan*

Operation Just Cause: An air power perspective
Source- Air Power History

Legacies of the U.S. invasion of Panama
Source- NACLA Report on the Americas

The legality of the United States invasion of Panama
Source- Yale Journal of International Law

Books & eBooks

Operation Just Cause: The U.S. intervention in Panama by Bruce W. Watson; Peter Tsouras
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781000308266

Operation Just Cause: The incursion into Panama
Source- U.S. Army Center for Military History
Available to read online (PDF)

Operation Just Cause: The planning and execution of joint operations in Panama, February 1988-January 1990 by Ronald H. Cole
Source- Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Available to read online (PDF)

Divorcing the dictator America's bungled affair with Noriega by Frederick Kempe
Call Number: F1567.N67 K46 1990
ISBN: 9780399135170

Global Media Perspectives on the Crisis in Panama by Howard M. Hensel (Editor); Nelson Michaud
Call Number: F1567 .G56 2011
ISBN: 9781409429494

Block by block: The challenges of urban operations by Editors William G. Robertson, Lawrence A. Yates
See chapter: Operation JUST CAUSE in Panama City, December 1989
Available to read online (PDF)

In the aftermath of war : US support for reconstruction and nation-building in Panama following Just Cause by Richard H. Shultz, Jr.
Call Number: E183.8.P2 S58 1993
Available to read online (PDF)

The U.S. military intervention in Panama: Origins, planning, and crisis management: June 1987-December 1989 by Lawrence A. Yates
Source- U.S. Army Center of Military History
Available to read online (PDF)

Battle for Panama: Inside Operation Just Cause by Edward M. Flanagan
Call Number: F1567 .F57 1993
ISBN: 9780028810393

Operation Just Cause: The storming of Panama by Thomas Donnelly; Margaret Roth; Caleb Baker
Call Number: E183.8.P2 D66 1991
ISBN: 9780669249750

Further Research...

Expand your research, beyond the sources included in this guide and your own independent database searches, by searching military sites:

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Repository for defense research and a main source for locating military theses.

Calhoun
The institutional repository for the Naval Postgraduate School, also an excellent source for military theses.

Joint Electronic Library (JEL)
Archive for joint doctrine and publications.