In 1983 the United States Marine Corps experienced its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II when a terrorist attack struck barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The untold story of that attack and its enduring impact on the US military and foreign policy is the subject of Former Navy SEAL and bestselling author Jack Carr’s first non-fiction book, Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror. On October 2, 2024 Carr appeared on-stage at the Nixon Library with his co-author, Pulitzer Prize finalist James Scott, to discuss their newly released book.
Authors Carr and Scott discussed why they decided to write about the 1983 terrorist attack, the importance of capturing the stories of the people who were there, and the parallels to today that offer insight to the war on terror.
Prior to writing Targeted: Beirut, Jack Carr authored the best-selling Terminal List series which was adapted into an Amazon Prime Video series starring Chris Pratt.
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