10/3/22, 7:25 PM Eisenhower Doctrine - Wikipedia

The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy enunciated by  Dwight D. Eisenhower  on January 5, 1957,

within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". Under the Eisenhower
Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S.
military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression.[1]  Eisenhower singled out
the Soviet threat in his doctrine by authorizing the commitment of U.S. forces "to secure and protect
the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt
armed aggression from any nation controlled by  international communism."[2]  The phrase
"international communism" made the doctrine much broader than simply responding to Soviet
military action. A danger that could be linked to communists of any nation could conceivably invoke
the doctrine.

Most Arabs regarded the doctrine as a transparent ploy to promote Western influence in the Middle
East by restraining Nasser's brand of Arab nationalism that opposed Western domination, and some
like the Syrians publicly denounced the initiative as an insidious example of  US imperialism.
Following the  1958 crisis in Lebanon  and accusations by US senators of exaggerating the threat of
communism to the region, Eisenhower privately admitted that the real goal was combatting Arab
nationalism.[3]

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