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The Eisenhower Doctrine, like all presidential doctrines, was non-binding, meaning that it was not a law. With that said, as the "commander in chief" of the armed forces, the American president has great latitude when it comes to foreign affairs and military intervention.

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1. The Eisenhower Doctrine was part of an American tradition of presidential doctrines, which included the Monroe Doctrine and Truman Doctrine before it.

2. Although not a communist, Nasser and his party, the Arab Socialist Union, was openly socialist, which many Americans of the time took as a variant of communism.

3. Although Eisenhower Doctrine lapsed after Eisenhower left office, American involvement in the region continued and even escalated. Post-Eisenhower American involvement in the Middle East centered more on support for Israel and oil interests than fighting communism.

4. The United States applied the Eisenhower Doctrine militarily when it intervened in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis in order to prevent a socialist, pro-Nasser government from coming to power.

5. The United States codenamed its intervention in Lebanon Operation Blue Bat. Troops were sent in on July 15, 1958 and all were withdrawn by October 25.

6. Many historians consider the Eisenhower Doctrine to be a corollary of Eisenhower's domino theory, which stated that communism should be faced head on in order to prevent nations from falling like dominos to communism.

7. The Eisenhower Doctrine was never again applied militarily after the Lebanon Crisis.

8. Although Nasser eventually moved away from the Soviet Union, his influence in the rest of the Arab world grew after the Eisenhower Doctrine was announced. Under Nasser, and then Sadat, Egypt was involved in two wars against Israel in 1967 and 1973.

9. Middle East scholars believe that the Eisenhower Doctrine was primarily directed toward Egypt and its leader, Gamal Nasser. After he came to power in 1954, and especially after the Suez Canal Crisis, Nasser moved his country closer to the Soviet bloc.

10. Perhaps because of the importance of Islam in the region more so than the Eisenhower Doctrine, no Arab nation ever adopted a strictly Marxist-communist government.