US military buildup off Venezuela shore stirs echoes of 1989 Panama intrusion
Some see anti-Noriega operation as model for deposing Maduro however others claim battle of bluff and intimidation is more likely choice
Michael Durant watched via night-vision safety glasses as two 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs pounded on to the Panamanian airbase while he hovered off the nation’s south coast in a Black Hawk helicopter.
” A gigantic flash, followed by a boom … [like] the biggest lightning strike you’ve ever seen in your life,” the retired United States army pilot remembered of the opening salvo of the Battle of Rio Hato Airfield in December 1989.
Source: The Guardian