| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index. |
| Contents |
The beginning -- Preparation and deployment -- Taking over responsibilities -- Relationships and training -- Peacekeepers in action -- The predictable war -- Cease-fire and rising danger -- Suicide bombings and aftermath -- Warriors' compassion -- Investigations -- Lessons learned -- Connecting the dots -- Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah -- The war comes home. |
| Summary |
On October 23, 1983, simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers in their barracks at the Beirut International Airport (BIA) and 58 French paratroopers at their headquarters two miles north of BIA. In this book, the Marine Corps commander of U.S. Multi-National Peacekeeping Force destroyed by terrorists in Lebanon tells his story. Together, these suicide bombings comprised largest nonnuclear explosion ever recorded and are now recognized as a seminal event leading to current war on terrorism. Such acts of war revealed a new, highly effective tactic, which complemented the terrorists' strategic goals, the withdrawal of peacekeepers and Western influence from Lebanon and a change in U.S. policy. It lays out, in detail, a sequence of events leading up to suicide truck bombings from which one can extrapolate the rationale, motives, and perpetrators behind it. Geraghty argues that absence of any retribution against the perpetrators emboldened terrorists to assume they could attack Americans and Western interests with impunity. This led to kidnappings, torture, and murders of Americans and other Westerners. This book will be of interest to general readers who want to learn more about this seminal event and its effects on the current global war on terrorism--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Marine Corps -- History -- Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Geraghty, Timothy J.
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Geraghty, Timothy J. |
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Geraghty, Timothy J. |
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United States. Marine Corps. |
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USA. |
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USA -- Marinekorps. |
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United States Marine Compound Bombing, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983 -- Personal narratives.
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United States Marine Compound Bombing (Beirut, Lebanon : 1983) |
| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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| Subject |
Lebanon -- History -- Israeli intervention, 1982-1985 -- Personal narratives, American.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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War on Terrorism (2001-2009) |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1983 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geraghty, Timothy J. Peacekeepers at war. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2009 9781597974257 (DLC) 2009031630 (OCoLC)428777474 |
| ISBN |
9781597975957 (electronic book) |
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1597975958 (electronic book) |
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9781597974257 |
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1597974250 |
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