The Marines in Beirut - 1982

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"The Marines in Beirut . 1982

Introduction
1982 was not the first year that the Marines were deployed to Lebanon, nor was Ronald Reagan the first American president to feel the need to send them there. President Eisenhower also deployed the Marines to Lebanon in 1958, with equally unclear motives and troubling results. The intent in the following pages is to look at the reintroduction of the Marines to Beirut under the conditions of the time and try to understand what went wrong and what might have better served U.S. interests. That re-deployment, which began in 1982, was marked by the bombing of the Marine barracks in October of 1983 which represented the largest single day's loss of American servicemen since World War II. After that time, much of the U.S. effort was reduced to damage control until the Marines were ..."

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