In 1958, Lebanon teetered on the brink of a second civil war when President Camille Chamoun sought to amend the constitution for a second term, sparking a rebellion backed by the United Arab Republic. As the conflict escalated, the U.S. launched Operation Blue Bat — the first major military intervention in the Middle East since World War II — landing 14,000 troops on Beirut's beaches. This episode explores the internal sectarian tensions, the role of the Eisenhower Doctrine, the diplomatic maneuvering of UN observers, and the quiet compromise that brought General Fuad Chehab to power as a consensus president. We focus on the little-known role of the Deuxième Bureau, Lebanon's intelligence agency, in both fueling and containing the violence, and how the crisis reshaped Lebanon's confessional balance for decades.
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