Irene L Gendzier

Notes From The Minefield (eBook, PDF)

United States Intervention In Lebanon And The Middle East, 1945-1958

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the United States sent thousands of troops to shore up the Lebanese regime in the face of domestic opp

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429691287
• Artikelnr.: 55734325

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Setting of U.S. Policy
The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention
U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East
Learning Lebanon: A Primer
Formative Years in the Evolution of U.S. Policy: 1944
1952
Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity
The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty
Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy
The Eisenhower Administration and the Sham'un Regime: A Policy of Information and Consent
Pressure Points and Priorities
Lebanon: The "Bridgehead in the Orient"
Realities of Power in the "Rear Area"
Our Man in Beirut
Intervening before Intervention
Civil War, May 1958
Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation
The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention
11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target
By Mutual Consent: July
October 1958
Epilogue: 1958 in Retrospect