Oh yeah, Reagan was definitely a practitioner of the never let a good crisis go to waste playbook. And it did set the stage for all the major flex of reasserting our military power. Our confidence was utterly shot after Vietnam, not only did we lose the war, we couldn't move on some revolutionary mullahs who were shaming us on the world …
Oh yeah, Reagan was definitely a practitioner of the never let a good crisis go to waste playbook. And it did set the stage for all the major flex of reasserting our military power. Our confidence was utterly shot after Vietnam, not only did we lose the war, we couldn't move on some revolutionary mullahs who were shaming us on the world stage.
It got to the point where an extremely minor operation like Grenada was a huge deal because it showed that we could actually do something right.
Oh yeah, Reagan was definitely a practitioner of the never let a good crisis go to waste playbook. And it did set the stage for all the major flex of reasserting our military power. Our confidence was utterly shot after Vietnam, not only did we lose the war, we couldn't move on some revolutionary mullahs who were shaming us on the world stage.
It got to the point where an extremely minor operation like Grenada was a huge deal because it showed that we could actually do something right.