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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- Preface to the 2006 Edition
- Part I. The Setting of U.S. Policy
- 1. The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention
- 2. U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East
- 3. Learning Lebanon: A Primer
- Part II. Formative Years in the Evolution of U.S. Policy: 1944â1952
- 4. Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity
- 5. The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty
- 6. Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy
- Part III. The Eisenhower Administration and the Shamâun Regime: A Policy of Information and Consent
- 7. Pressure Points and Priorities
- 8. Lebanon: The âBridgehead in the Orientâ
- 9. Realities of Power in the âRear Areaâ
- 10. Our Man in Beirut
- Part IV. Intervening Before Intervention
- 11. Civil War, May 1958
- 12. Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation
- Part V. The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention
- 13. 11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target
- 14. By Mutual Consent: JulyâOctober 1958
- Epilogue: 1958 in Retrospect
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index