TR's Plan to Invade Colombia
By Commander Henry J. Hendrix II, U.S. Navy
Recently uncovered documents reveal one of President Theodore Roosevelt's most audacious but calculated foreign policy moves. He dispatched the commandant of the Marine Corps and a brigade of Leathernecks to Panama with orders to invade Colombia in order to preserve Panamanian independence and secure U.S. possession of the future Canal Zone.
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Commander Hendrix is the executive officer of Tactical Air Control Squadron Eleven. He has twice been named the Samuel Eliot Morison Scholar by the Naval Historical Center. He is a former member of the U.S. Naval Institute's Board of Directors and an ex-officio member of its Editorial Board.
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