This monograph looks at the problems on and around the southern boundary of Lebanon from the time it was first established by the French and British after World War I. The author turns to the Zionist thirst for the waters of the Litani River, the impotence and neglect of the southern region and its Shia inhabitants on the part of all Lebanese governments, the coming of the PLO, Israel's policies and actions on grounds of security, and finally the war of 1982 and the unsettled issues left in its wake.

Frederic C. Hof is a U.S. Army officer who has spent most of his sixteen-y~ar career in assignments and training related to the Middle East. He recently served on the staff of the Long Commission, which investigated the October 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks at Beirut International Airport.

INTRODUCTION 1. THE CREATION OF THE PALESTINE-LEBANON BOUNDARY 2. LOCAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE 1923 BOUNDARY AGREEMENT 3. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE 192.3 BOUNDARY AGREEMENT 4. THE EVOLVING WATER CONTROVERSY 5. EVOLVING SECURITY PROBLEMS: 1925-1949, 6. A QUIET INTERLUDE: 1949-1967, 7. THE FEDAYEEN FACTOR: 1968-1975, 8. CIVIL WAR AND THE SOUTH: 1975-1978, 9. THE MARCH 1978 INVASION AND AFTERMATH 10. THE SOUTH LEBANON PRESSURE POINT 11. THE MAY 1983 ISRAELI-LEBANESE AGREEMENT 12. PEACE FOR GALILEE?