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U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 (Paperback)
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U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 (Paperback)
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"U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984," is based primarily on the
monthly command chronologies and biweekly situation reports of the
Marine amphibious units which were deployed to Lebanon as well as
other related official documentation, all of which resides in the
archives of the Marine Corps Historical Center. Although none of
the information in this history is classified, some of the
documentation on which it is based remains so. A considerable
number of "issue-oriented" oral history interviews concerned with
the deployments were also used in the preparation of this book.
Following the return of the 32d MAU from Lebanon and before its
redeployment in early 1983, the author began a series of interviews
with the key personnel in all the MAU s deployed to Lebanon to
augment the paper record of this 18-month period in Marine Corps
history. Before U.S. Marines in Lebanon was completed, a total of
119 interviews had been conducted. They are now accessioned in the
Marine Corps Oral History Collection. This book is a
straightforward account of the deployment of Marines to Lebanon in
the period 1982-1984. The story begins with the landing of the 32d
Marine Amphibious Unit (32d MAU) in Beirut in August 1982 at the
request of the Lebanese Government to assist, together with French
and Italian military units, in supervising the evacuation of the
Palestine Liberation Organization . It ends in February 1984 with
the withdrawal of the 22d Marine Amphibious Unit following the
effective end of its mission and the nearly complete breakdown of
order in Lebanon. In between is an ambiguous Marine mission of
presence of 18 months' duration. Together with the British, French,
and Italian members of the Multi-National Force, the Marines
attempted, as "peacekeepers," to assist the Lebanese Government in
achieving stability and ending the factional fighting which has all
but destroyed Lebanon as a viable political entity. For any number
of reasons, none of which are the concern of this book, the mission
of peacekeeping failed, and in the process, those who were there to
help Lebanon achieve the peace so many Lebanese wanted-but too many
others did not-were sorely tried and severely mauled. As a history
strictly of the Marines' role in Lebanon, this book does not deal
with the major, high-level decisions of the administration which
put and kept Marines in that country. Nor does the book deal with
American diplomatic efforts in the Middle East in this period
except in those instances when the MAU Marines were directly
involved. This is simply the story of Marine Corps presence and
operations in Lebanon for the period concerned. It draws no
conclusions.
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