In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce
Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted
between Israel and its Arab neighbors, who profoundly opposed the
creation of a Jewish state. UNTSO quickly found itself overseeing
the ceasefire lines between combatant parties. In the ensuing
decades, as countries along the eastern Mediterranean engaged in a
series of escalating military conflicts, UNTSO was continually
challenged in its peacekeeping mission, often having to alter its
configuration. Matters came to a head in 1982, when Israel invaded
Lebanon for a second time, calling into question the efficacy of UN
peacekeeping operations and US support for them. In Yanks in Blue
Berets: American UN Peacekeepers in the Middle East, retired US
Army colonel and former UN military observer L. Scott Lingamfelter
chronicles the role of the US military in UN Middle East
peacekeeping operations. Framed by his personal experiences, the
book examines the difficulties faced by UN forces wedged between
warring sides with limited trust in their authority as well as the
challenging dichotomy of a soldier trained for combat yet immersed
in unarmed peacekeeping. Yanks in Blue Berets is a "boots on the
ground" perspective of the building Arab-Israeli tensions and
geopolitics preceding the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
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