Story by Erin Thompson | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 07.06.2023
On 15 July 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized military intervention in Lebanon under the codename Operation BLUE BAT. Over the next three months, challenged by intelligence gaps, members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Army occupied the Port of Beirut and the Beirut International Airport as peace-keeping entities....
