Topics

1. Historical Context Before Reagan’s Presidency—Latin America Becomes a Central Front in the Cold War
    
2. Reagan’s Sets a New U.S. Strategy: Campaign Platform 1980 and Reagan’s First Year as President—1981
    
3. An Early U.S. Intelligence Assessment of Soviet Imperialism in Latin America—1982
    
4. Reagan Presses for his New Strategy—1982, 1983
    
5. Grenada: Liberation and Captured Documents on Soviet “Active Measures”—October 1983
    
6. Reagan’s Strategy and the National Bipartisan Commission on Latin America—1984
    
7. More on the Enemy, Stakes, and Strategy—1984
    
8. The Second Term: Reagan Steps Up to the Increasing Challenge—1985
    
9. The Battle Intensifies Further—1986 to 1987
    
10. Iran-Contra and Beyond: Pressing On—November 1986 to January 1989
     
11. A Note on Soviet-Cuban Imperialism in Africa
     
12. A Look Back and Ahead