This is a story about how military men and women successfully planned and executed a complex operations in pursuit of ambitious goals, against a tumultuous political backdrop with changing directives.

Includes maps of: Operation Just Cause - H-Hour Targets; Seals at Paitilla Airfield; Torrijos/Tocumen - Ranger Assault; Torrijos/Tocumen - 82nd Arrives; 82nd Airborne Air Assaults; Air Assault at Panama Viejo; Air Assault at Tinajitas; Air Assault at Fort Cimarron; Task Force Atlantic; Assault on PDF Naval Infantry; Task Force Atlantic H-Hour Missions; Colon Area of Operations; Rangers Seize Rio Hato.

PARTIAL APPENDICES: Glossary. -Principal characters. -Operation Just Cause -- the cost.