RAYMOND TANTER is Professor of Political Science and Research Associate at the Middle East Center at the University of Michigan. He served at the White House on the National Security Council staff, 1981-82. In 1983-84 he was Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense to arms control talks in Helsinki, Madrid, Stockholm and Vienna.

• Preface -- Introduction -- The Missiles of May -- Contingency Planning -- Diplomacy Sans Force -- The Lull Before the Storm -- The Guns of June -- Force Sans Diplomacy -- The Siege-Squeeze War -- The Endgame -- Lessons of Lebanon