Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps and Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Preface to the 2006 Edition xvii
6. Part I. The Setting of U.S. Policy
7. 1. The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention 3
8. 2. U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East 21
9. 3. Learning Lebanon: A Primer 43
10. Part II. Formative Years in the Evolution of U.S. Policy: 1944–1952
11. 4. Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity 65
12. 5. The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty 90
13. 6. Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy 115
14. Part III. The Eisenhower Administration and the Sham‘un Regime: A Policy of Information and Consent
15. 7. Pressure Points and Priorities 143
16. 8. Lebanon: The “Bridgehead in the Orient” 160
17. 9. Realities of Power in the “Rear Area” 181
18. 10. Our Man in Beirut 202
19. Part IV. Intervening Before Intervention
20. 11. Civil War, May 1958 229
21. 12. Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation 264
22. Part V. The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention
23. 13. 11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target 295
24. 14. By Mutual Consent: July–October 1958 338
25. Epilogue: 1958 in Retrospect 365
26. Notes 379
27. Bibliography 423
28. Index 445