1957Congress adopted the Eisenhower Doctrine, which provided that a country could request economic assistance from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another country. 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.”1973A jury …