The New Mission refers to the declaration by President Neill Wallace in August of 1979, upon the second repulsion of Brazilian troops from Colombian territory, that the United States had a "new mission" in the war to topple the Savala regime in Brazil and to explicitly back the return to power of the prewar Brazilian government through the re-instatement of the leadership of the ERB. Authorized by the Clark-Menino Resolution to conduct the war as he saw fit, Wallace made this declaration at a time of deep economic anxiety in the United States as the economy had slipped into a recession following a devastating financial crisis. The New Mission was extremely unpopular amongst the American public, which had previously supported the defense of Colombia with lukewarm opinion, and marked the beg