McNair Paper Number 54, Chapter 6, Notes, October 1996

1. The cooperation challenges raised here are drawn from Ivelaw L. Griffith, "Regional Security in the Caribbean: The Cooperation Logic and Some Challenges." Paper delivered on the Symposium on Cooperative Security in the Caribbean, co-sponsored by USACOM, the National Defense University, and the North-South Center, University of Miami, and held in Miami, April 18-19, 1995.

2. Telephone conversation with Brig. Rudyard Lewis on March 8, 1996.

3. This is clear from what is so far the best account of the affair, in terms of the domestic political and geopolitical circumstances that precipitated the intervention, the intervention as planned and executed, and its aftermath: Mark Adkin, Urgent Fury: The Battle for Grenada (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1989).

4. These and other details of the 1995 and 1996 exercises were provided in telephone conversations with Brig. Lewis and Lt. Col. Trevor Thomas of the Antigua-Barbuda Defense Force, both on June 24, 1995, with Brig. Lewis on March 8, 1996, and with Lt. Col. Thomas on March 9, 1996.

5. For more on the RSS, see RSS Staff, "The Roles of the Regional Security System in the East Caribbean," Bulletin of Eastern Caribbean Affairs 11 (January-February 1986): 5-7; and Ivelaw L. Griffith, "The RSS: A Decade of Collective Security in the Caribbean," The Round Table, no. 324 (October 1992): 465-75.