Rabin and Israel's National Security
Rabin and Israel's National Security

Author: Efraim Inbar

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Published: 1999-06-17

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780801862175

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For more than forty years Yitzhak Rabin played a critical role in shaping Israeli national security policy and military doctrine. He began as a soldier in the Palmach, the elite underground unit of the Jewish community in Palestine, served in the 1948 War of Independence, and ultimately became chief of staff of the Israel Defense Force (IDF), defense minister in several governments, ambassador to the United States, and, twice, prime minister. As chief of staff, Rabin led the IDF to its triumph in the 1967 Six Day War. He was assassinated in 1995 as prime minister as he left a peace rally. Drawing on unpublished materials and interviews with important sources, including Rabin himself, Efraim Inbar's work offers a systematic study of Rabin's strategic thinking and his policies. Topics include the evolution of Rabin's thinking, his contributions to IDF military buildup, his stress on Israel's relationship to the United States, his attitudes toward the use of force, and his approach to Israel's nuclear status in the Middle East. Inbar's conclusion evaluates Rabin's contribution to Israel's national security and assesses Rabin's personal transition from warrior to peace maker. Because of Rabin's crucial role in Israel's defense establishment at important junctures in its history, this book provides an important view into the security challenges Israel has faced and how the country has responded over four decades.

Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas
Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas

Author: Sergio Catignani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-01-24

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1134079974

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This volume analyzes the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) counter-insurgency operations during the two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) in the Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It employs primary and secondary resources to produce a comprehensive analysis on whether or not the IDF has been able to adapt it

A History of Israel
A History of Israel

Author: Howard M. Sachar

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2007-05-15

Total Pages: 1297

ISBN-13: 0375711325

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First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. Decades later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work. The second edition of this volume covers topics such as the first of the Aliyahs in the 1880s; the rise of Jewish nationalism; the beginning of the political Zionist movement and, later, how the movement changed after Theodor Herzl; the Balfour Declaration; the factors that led to the Arab-Jewish confrontation; Palestine and its role both during the Second World War and after; the war of independence and the many wars that followed it over the next few decades; and the development of the Israeli republic and the many challenges it faced, both domestic and foreign, and still faces today. This is a truly enriching and exhaustive history of a nation that holds claim to one of the most complicated and controversial histories in the world.

National Security And Public Opinion In Israel
National Security And Public Opinion In Israel

Author: Asher Arian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-10

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 0429710038

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National Security and Public Opinion in Israel undertakes to depict the patterns of public opinion in Israel regarding national security policy. It analyzes some of the issues involved in the relationship between public opinion and the decisionmakers on national security issues.

Israel, Strategic Culture and the Conflict with Hamas
Israel, Strategic Culture and the Conflict with Hamas

Author: Niccolò Petrelli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1351709313

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of ‘strategic culture’ on Israeli military operations against Hamas between 1987 and 2014. It has often been argued that Israeli policies and military operations against Hamas have proven tactically effective, but strategically disastrous, allowing the Islamic Resistance Movement to grow from a small spin-off of the Muslim Brotherhood into a powerful military and political actor in the Palestinian arena. This book argues, contrary to this opinion, that Israel was effective in its struggle against the Islamic Resistance Movement between 1987 and 2014, as the Jewish state ultimately managed to deny the majority of Hamas' strategic aims and to preserve a position of relative strength. By relying on a synthesis of primary sources, interviews, memoirs, scholarly and professional military studies and information gathered from the media, the study delivers a careful and comprehensive analysis of the conflict. It provides an historical outline of the development of the Israeli ‘strategic culture’ and analyzes its impact on the process of military adaptation during the First Intifada, the Oslo Peace Process, the al-Aqsa Intifada and the Gaza wars. Finally, the book illuminates how the Israeli strategic culture moulded a distinctive ‘way of war’ that, though marked by successes and failures, ultimately proved effective against Hamas. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, Middle Eastern politics, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and security studies in general.

Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy

Author: Timothy D. Hoyt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1351558153

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Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.

Strategic Implications Of The New Oil Reality
Strategic Implications Of The New Oil Reality

Author: Shemuel Meir

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1000313247

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Originally published in 1986. The oil crises of the 1970s and the shockwaves they sent throughout the industrialized countries and the Third World, appeared at one point to be ushering in an "Arab Century." But the first half of the 1980s produced a radically different oil reality. The price of oil dropped from over $34 per barrel in l980 to under

Professionals against Populism
Professionals against Populism

Author: Michael Keren

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1995-08-23

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780791425640

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Based on Shimon Peres's private papers, investigates the role of professionals--attorneys, strategic experts, and economists--in Israel's national unity government of 1984-1986 and assesses their impact on government policy.

Offense And Defense In Israeli Military Doctrine
Offense And Defense In Israeli Military Doctrine

Author: Ariel Levite

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0429710054

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This book discusses the existing literature on military doctrines in general, and offensive doctrines in particular, as well as on causes of their stagnation and sources of innovation. It provides the backdrop for an analytical historical review of Israel's offensive military doctrine.