Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East

It was never the intent of the U.S. foreign policy makers to be indirectly responsible for the power vacuum left in Lebanon; however, it is undeniably the result of the over exaggerated paranoia of communism during the cold war era that led to crucial foreign policy...

The Nixon Doctrine and Israel

The primary driving force of American foreign policy leading up to the Crisis in Lebanon during the 1970s was the Nixon Doctrine which came as a direct result of the failure of the Eisenhower Doctrine which no longer became a valid means of safeguarding democracy and...

Soviet influence in Middle East

The cold war analysts in the presidential administrations were not influenced by a complete fantasy, there was limited and indirect Soviet influence in the Middle East and in Lebanon during both of the crises. However, the Soviet Union for the most part was the...

United States support during the Iran Iraq war

The heightened paranoia of communism by the American foreign policy makers, and the exploitation of the fear by regional powers, had established the foundations for the intervention of the regional powers in the Lebanese civil war. However, it was the consequences of...

American Prioritization on oil supply

Like many conflicts in the Middle East, the war in Lebanon did involve strong consideration of the oil supply in the Middle East. When one investigates the fundamental roots of the Lebanese conflict, we come to realize how much conflict resolution is rooted in the...