Located at the southernmost tip of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean Sea, Grenada is only 344 square kilometers, about the same size as the Maldives, with a population of about 110,000, of which 82% are black Africans, and is a small island nation. However, this small island nation once attracted the attention of the world because of a war.
Grenada location
Historically, this area was a French colony from about 1650, taken from France during the Anglo-French War in 1762, retaken by the unwilling France in 1779, but within four years the British made a comeback and captured Grenada again. In 1794, Grenada gained its independence.
St. George,D., the capital of Grenada
After independence, Grenada began to have good relations with the United States, but the new Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, who was elected in 1979, actively developed relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba, and received a large amount of economic and military assistance from the Soviet Union and Cuba. This caused dissatisfaction in the United States and threatened to use force against it; under pressure from the United States, Bishop felt the need to ease relations with the United States and personally went to the United States to sign an understanding agreement with it, but this pragmatic measure caused dissatisfaction among the pro-Soviet factions in the country, and Bishop was secretly shot by Deputy Prime Minister Austin and others. The new administration was extremely pro-Soviet, which seriously threatened U.S. interests.
On October 25, 1983, the United States decided to overthrow Grenada by force, a campaign code-named Operation Fury.
The balance of forces between the two sides participating in the war
The huge military balance made the outcome of the war as if it were a cattle knife, and the Grenadian government was overthrown three days later.
The outcome of the war
Grenada now has no army, the government is actively developing the economy, and agriculture and tourism are the main components of the national economy. The cash crop nutmeg production accounts for 1/3 of the world, is one of the main export products, tourism is developing rapidly, with per capita GDP exceeding 10,000 US dollars in 2018.