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Bruce Riedel's book is a gripping and colorful account of the first U.S. combat operation in the Middle East. It's packed with narrative detail, including events Riedel witnessed himself as the young son of a United Nations worker in Lebanon. This brief but potent work from a seasoned expert--who has since witnessed a lifetime of events in the Middle East--offers wisdom from the Marines' fateful 1958 landing in Lebanon that is still relevant in a region that continues to confound U.S. policymakers. --Jane Harman, President, Wilson Center Bruce Riedel combines real-world policy experience and a profound understanding of the Middle East to weave a fascinating, complex tapestry of Cold War-era coups and conspiracies, culminating in President Eisenhower's unprecedented decision to deploy U.S. Marines to Beirut in 1958. With the action shifting swiftly among Arab capitals and Washington, this nonfiction thriller provides a cautionary note for today: how seeing the world through a zero-sum prism (Washington-Moscow then, perhaps Washington Tehran today) can lead to distorted analysis and high strategic costs. --Jeffrey Feltman, former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon and former UN undersecretary general for political affairs

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Bruce Riedel is the Director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the Center for Middle East Studies. He is the author of Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR and five other books. Prior to coming to Brookings, he served thirty years in the Central Intelligence Agency with postings in the Middle East and Europe, and in the White House and Pentagon.

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