Publisher's Synopsis
On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beruit. 241 Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack the U.S. until 9/11. 'When Reagan Sent in the Marines' tells why the Marines were there, how their mission became confused and compromised, and how President Reagan used another misguided military venture to distract America from the attack and his many mistakes leading up to it.