The military of Grenada comprises two branches:

• Royal Grenada Police Force, which includes a Special Service Unit
• Coast Guard
  Coast Guard of Grenada
  The Grenadian Coast Guard is one of two military branches in Grenada. The Coast Guard's role is search and rescue as well as drug interdiction. The Coast Guard falls under the command of the Commissioner of Police and has a total of 60 personnel in service operating 4 craft. The branches...
  
  

Total military expenditure: NA

Military expenditure as a percentage of GDP: NA%

1983 invasion

Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop

Maurice Bishop

Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard, a member of his own...

 came to power in a bloodless coup

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 in 1979. On 19 October 1983, Bishop was executed in a coup supported by the Grenada People's Revolutionary Army. On October 25, Grenada was invaded by more than 7,000 military personnel from the United States

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 and six Caribbean

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 nations. They were resisted by fewer than 1,200 soldiers from the People's Revolutionary Army (PRA). The coup leaders were arrested and a new government was appointed by the Governor-General.