A little more than forty years ago, in 1982, US Marines began a peacekeeping mission as part of a multinational force (MNF) in war torn Lebanon. The Marines were to maintain a visible “presence ...

A new book showcases how the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, paved the way for America's war on terrorism.

The overall mission of U.S. Marines in Lebanon commenced in August 1982 in the middle of a civil war. Competing factions had begun to rip the Middle Eastern country apart.