Turning Point

JOHN BACHMAN (BOCA RATON, FLORIDA) is the host of JOHN BACHMAN NOW on NEWSMAX and an award winning journalist who has worked for more than a decade as a TV news producer, reporter, and anchor. He started as an intern at Fox 5 in Atlanta, then moved to WRDW in Augusta, GA, and then on to WPEC in West Palm Beach, Florida, and joined NEWSMAX in 2011. Bachman has also covered special assignments for CBS News, CNN, and Fox, and since joining Newsmax in 2011, Bachman has traveled the country and won an award for the HEROES documentary he wrote and produced for NEWSMAX to commemorate the heroic acts of twenty-five ordinary Americans. The author lives and works in Boca Raton, Florida.

TABLE OF CONTENTS to TURNING POINT: How the U.S. LIberation of Grenada Led to the Fall of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War 

by John Bachman


“Every president has to make sure that his secretary of state understands who is the president and who is the secretary of state”


—Dean Rusk

PART 1


THE SPREAD OF MARXISM IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 



Somoza’s Assassintion and the Fall of Nicaragua 
Grenada’s Bloodless Revolution
Mexico’s Tilt Towards Marxism 
A Warning From Congress 



REAGAN’S ELECTION




One Debate For All The Marbles
Why Reagan Ran, Again
The 1980 GOP Primary
President Carter's Primary Challenges 
The Transition and the End of the Iran Hostage Crisis
Carter And El Salvador 
The Inauguration 
Reagan’s First Televised Press Conference



THE RESIGNATION OF AL HAIG 



“The Meanest Son of Bitch”
“I’m In Control Here
The Beginning of the End
“Remember, Everyone Stock Up on Vodka.”
A “Nightmare” Trip to Europe & the 1982 War in Lebanon
China and Taiwan 
The Final Straw



SOVIET GERONTOCRACY




The Ghosts of Stalin’s Purge
Redefining Detente 
Star Wars: The Strategic Defense Initiaitive 
Operation RYAN
Soviet Response to The Strategic Defense Initiative 
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
A Nuclear Scare  



PART 2 


GRENADA’s DAYS OF TERROR




Flashpoint: Grenada
A Crisis Erupts - The Assassination Of Maurice Bishop
Bernard Coard’s Back Story 
The Cuban Connection 
Days Of “Terror” 



A HOSTAGE CRISIS IN AUGUSTA




Oct. 22, 1983
Contingency Plans 
Skeptics 



THE MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING IN BEIRUT




Oct 23rd, 1983
Margaret Thatcher Warns Reagan not to invade 
Bud McFarlane 



THE SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP




1967 Thatcher Tours the US, Reagan’s California U.S. Itinerary 
The Falklands War Reagan Calls for Ceasefire but the Iron Lady will have none of it
March 1983 The New Jewel Marxists started complaining about “U.S. Aggression”



PART 3


D-DAY MINUS 1




SEAL Team 6’s First Mission Starts with Tragedy
The 82nd Airborne gets ready for “something”
The Green Light 



D-DAY




Operation Urgent Fury
The “heavy” Fog of War 



D DAY PLUS 1


A NATION WITH GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES






Flipping The Script
Top Gun Recruiting 
Reagan’s October 27th, 1983 Speech



THE APOLOGY & THE GOODBYE






“Don’t Go Wobbly”
Margaret Thatcher’s Eulogy of Reagan