Ronald Reagan was the President who ordered in invasion of Grenada in 1983.
It was President George W. Bush
The invasion of Grenada was by the British to eliminate the threat of attacks by the native people against the British.
US Military: Operation Urgent Fury (1983).
It took a few years before the US military was ready, able, and willing to jump into another foreign adventure...1983 to be exact (Operation Urgent Fury-Invasion of Grenada). US casualties were 19 killed.
President Ronald Reagan sent troops in because he determined that Grenada's government posed a threat to the almost 1,000 Americans on the island.
Grenada was invaded in 1983, so the US President was Ronald Reagan.
It was President George W. Bush
Grenada
John Kennedy was the president when this event occurred.
Reagan
The invasion of Grenada was by the British to eliminate the threat of attacks by the native people against the British.
US Military: Operation Urgent Fury (1983).
The US invasion of Grenada to rescue US students and prevent a Cuban foothold there.
The first US military operation was President Reagan's "Urgent Fury" the invasion of Grenada in 1983. From then until our current ones; Iraqi Freedom & Enduring Freedom; they were quick, surgical, and efficient.
Because President Ronald Reagan said "GO".
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but the plan had been prepared during the Eisenhower administration. The planning may have already preceded the Kennedy administration, however, as US President, the invasion became his responsibility once he took office.
It took a few years before the US military was ready, able, and willing to jump into another foreign adventure...1983 to be exact (Operation Urgent Fury-Invasion of Grenada). US casualties were 19 killed.