There were no Situation Room meetings and no quiet calls to de-escalate a dispute with an ally. Just threats, counterthreats, ...
The United States supported its secession from Colombia in 1903, and secured a sovereign zone in which to build the Panama Canal - which remained under US control from 1914 until 1999. The US ...
More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 years after the canal was returned to Panama by the US — the Panama Canal ...