In a week where Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon — and launched a ground offensive in the southern region of the country — a new book revisits the 1983 terrorist bombing in the city that resulted in the biggest single-day loss of life suffered by the US Marine Corps since the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima.
And as Jack Carr and James M Scott, reveal in “Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror” (Atria), it is a terrorist attack that “continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day.”
Based on interviews, military records, personal letters and diaries, “Targeted” is the story of one of the most shocking acts of violence ever perpetrated on the United States military and how America’s failure to mount a robust response merely served to embolden terrorist networks across the Middle East in the years that followed.
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