Urgent Fury -- A Look Back ... A Look Forward

Abstract

Operation URGENT FURY, the American invasion of Grenada in October 1983, was a success at all levels of war--strategic, operational, and tactical. Since then, the United States has been involved in combat operations twice: operation JUST CAUSE in Panama (December 1989) and Operation DESERT STORM in the Middle East (January 1990). These operations were also enormous successes. When compared with JUST CAUSE and DESERT STORM, the operation in Grenada was unique-- specifically in terms of planning time, in-place forces, and intelligence. The problems in URGENT FURY resulted in numerous lessons learned. It is important for the military community to not let the successes of JUST CAUSE and DESERT STORM detract from what went wrong in URGENT FURY. The military should continue to analyze what went wrong in Grenada and train to future URGENT FURY type scenarios.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 08, 1994
Accession Number
ADA279707

Entities

People

  • Joseph P. Doty

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Governments
  • Landing Fields
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Students
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control