{"product_id":"2940148850144","title":"THE U.S. INTERVENTION IN LEBANON, 1958: A COMMANDER'S REMINISCENCE","description":"In the summer of 1982, the Director, Combat Studies Institute, assigned me the task of writing\u003cbr\u003ea Leavenworth Paper on rapid deployment logistics, using the US intervention in Lebanon in\u003cbr\u003e1958 as a case study. Lebanon was chosen because there was ample documentation, much of it\u003cbr\u003eonly recently declassified, and because Dr. Roger Spiller had set the strategic and tactical stage in\u003cbr\u003eLeavenworth Paper No. 3, \"Not War But Like War\": The American Intervention in Lebanon. In the\u003cbr\u003ecourse of my investigation, I decided to contact several military officers who had participated in\u003cbr\u003ethe operation. Major General (Retired) David W. Gray was one of those contacted.\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Gray said in his initial response that he would reply at a later date, after he had had\u003cbr\u003etime to review his papers and comb his memory in order to prepare as thorough and accurate a\u003cbr\u003enarrative as possible. When his reply arrived, it totaled over one-hundred handwritten pages.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to providing answers to my specific questions about logistics, General Gray provided\u003cbr\u003ehis recollections of the Lebanon operation and a critique of Leavenworth Paper No. 3. His\u003cbr\u003emanuscript not only contained a detailed and candid account of his activities, but amplified, elaborated, and sometimes disputed Dr, Spiller's work. In this sense, it is both an important eyewitness account and a companion piece.to Leavenworth Paper Mo 3. The reader of both publications will benefit from being able to draw upon the scholarly work of a trained historian and the memoir of an actual participant. The historical record could not be better served.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067933442288,"sku":"2940148850144","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148850144_p0.jpg?v=1763709768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148850144","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}