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Operation Iron Brain - The Siege of Beirut June-August, 1982

By: High Flying Dice Games

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games w/Mounted Counters

MSRP old price: $41.95


Product Info

Title
Operation Iron Brain - The Siege of Beirut June-August, 1982
Category
Publish Year
2022
Dimensions
8.5x11x.25"
NKG Part #
2147992076
Type
Ziplock

Description

For over a year the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) had bombarded Israel’s northern provinve of Galilee with artillery and rocket fire.

On June 6, 1982 the Israeli military invaded southern Lebanon in an operation dubbed “Peace for Galilee”. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) quickly defeated the PLO’s armed forces and drove north. Although the declared aim of the Israeli offensive was to clear a 40 kilometer “Buffer zone” along the Lebanese/Israeli boarder, Israeli defense minister, Ariel Sharon, was determined to eradicate the PLO once and for all, and hopefully kill its leader, Yassir Arafat.

With new orders the IDF crossed the Litani River and drove on Beirut where the remnants of PLO’s forces were retreating, and where most of their refugee camps were located. What ensued was an escalating conflict that threatened to engulf the entire mid-east once more in conflict and bring Lebanon to the brink of abyss of genocidal civil war.