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Forgotten Panthers of Panama is a ground-level account of Operation Just Cause, told from the perspective of an infantry squad leader in December 1989.
This is not a sweeping history of the invasion or a strategic overview from a distant command post. It is a close, personal narrative of patrols, uncertainty, exhaustion, and sudden violence—where decisions were made with incomplete information and real consequences.
At the squad level, leadership is not theoretical. It is immediate. It is visible. It is tested in real time.
Written with clarity and restraint, Forgotten Panthers of Panama captures what it meant to lead when plans broke down, communication faltered, and responsibility could not be passed upward.
It is a combat memoir—but it is also a study in composure, trust, and the quiet weight of leadership under fire.
