The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders
The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders

Author: John Quigley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-01-14

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1316539091

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During the early to mid-twentieth century, the Zionist Organization secured a series of political victories on the international stage, leading to the foundation of a Jewish state and to its ability to expand its territorial control within Palestine. The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders provides a revisionist account of the founding of Israel by exposing the misrepresentations and false assurances of Zionist diplomats during this formative period of Israeli history. By comparing diplomatic statements at the United Nations and elsewhere against the historical record, it sheds new light on the legacies of such leaders as Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, Abba Eban, and Shabtai Rosenne. Including coverage of little-discussed moments in early Israeli history, this book offers an important new perspective for anyone interested in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel's Reprisal Policy, 1953-1956
Israel's Reprisal Policy, 1953-1956

Author: Ze'ev Drory

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781135754068

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Following Israel's War of Independence in 1948 and 1949, the anticipated peace did not materialize and the new nation soon found itself embroiled in protracted military conflict with neighbouring Arab states. Demobilization of its armed forces led to the formation of special elite unit under the command of Ariel Sharon to cope with cross-border infiltration, pillage and murder. A policy of deterrence was governed by the tactic of retaliation, which contained the seeds of escalation. At the same time, a military dynamic unfolded in which the logic of field unit response dictated both military and political policy and caught the imagination of a demoralized and war-weary Israeli society. The myth of the Israeli paratroopers at the beginning of the 1950s, and their heroic deeds in the reprisal raids, embodied the new Zionist ethos for which the current Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, claims much of the credit. The book thus provides historical insight into some of the most intractable developments of the current Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel’s Asymmetric Wars
Israel’s Asymmetric Wars

Author: S. Cohen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0230112978

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This book is devoted to Israel's asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it. It seeks to understand the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorists acting under the guise of civilians or using the population as human shields. The army has implemented a loosely devised, if not simplistic, doctrine of "disproportionate response" since Israel's founding. The results have been mediocre, nearly always leading to the death of innocent Arab civilians and exacerbating anti-Israeli sentiment. Each time it has led to an escalation that is difficult to control and thrown the entire country into an increasingly inextricable situation. Practically every time it has made Israel, the aggressed party, look like the aggressor. What explains such perseverance? This research is based on vast documentation collected in Israel as well as on more than 60 in-depth interviews with officers and simple soldiers, senior counterterrorism officials, politicians, journalists and NGOs.

Israel's Reprisal Policy, 1953-1956
Israel's Reprisal Policy, 1953-1956

Author: Ze'ev Drory

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1135754055

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Following Israel's War of Independence in 1948 and 1949, the anticipated peace did not materialize and the new nation soon found itself embroiled in protracted military conflict with neighbouring Arab states. Demobilization of its armed forces led to the formation of special elite unit under the command of Ariel Sharon to cope with cross-border infiltration, pillage and murder. A policy of deterrence was governed by the tactic of retaliation, which contained the seeds of escalation. At the same time, a military dynamic unfolded in which the logic of field unit response dictated both military and political policy and caught the imagination of a demoralized and war-weary Israeli society. The myth of the Israeli paratroopers at the beginning of the 1950s, and their heroic deeds in the reprisal raids, embodied the new Zionist ethos for which the current Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, claims much of the credit. The book thus provides historical insight into some of the most intractable developments of the current Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel's Reprisal Policy, 1953-1956
Israel's Reprisal Policy, 1953-1956

Author: Zeʼev Derori

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780714685175

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"This book methodically examines the train of retaliatory actions conducted by the Israel Defence Force, the clashing orientations among Israeli political leadership towards the deteriorating military situation, the impact of massive immigration upon the social military fabric, and the restructuring of the Israeli army within the conceptual confines of field unit reprisal actions. A connected narrative of these actions provides case study illumination of the theoretical premises of study, namely the determination of security policy from below and the interaction between agency and structure in a military setting."--BOOK JACKET.

Conscription in the Napoleonic Era
Conscription in the Napoleonic Era

Author: Donald Stoker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-10-09

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1134270097

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This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars. The levée-en-masse of the French Revolution has often been cited as a ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’, but was it truly a ‘revolutionary’ break with past European practices of raising armies, or an intensification of the scope and scale of practices already inherent in the European military system? This international collection of scholars demonstrate that European conscription has far deeper roots than has been previously acknowledged, and that its intensification during the Napoleonic era was more an ‘evolutionary’ than ‘revolutionary’ change. This book will be of much interest to students of Military History, Strategic Studies, Strategic History and European History.

Khedive Ismail's Army
Khedive Ismail's Army

Author: John P. Dunn

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780714657042

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This book provides the first detailed examination in English of the Egyptian-Abyssinian War and looks at the root problems that made Ismail's soldiers ineffective, including class, racism, politics, finance, and changing military technology.

American Soldiers in Iraq
American Soldiers in Iraq

Author: Morten G. Ender

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1135968756

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American Soldiers is the first book to examine the collective social experiences of soldiers in the Iraq War.

Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918
Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918

Author: John F Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-05

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1134244487

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Reconstructs a formative part of Hitler's life oft neglected in the literature: his war experiences as a soldier Tells the story of a German regiment that fought in the all the main battles of WWI Will appeal to military historians, WWI historians, German historians and general readers of military history

Strategic Culture and Ways of War
Strategic Culture and Ways of War

Author: Lawrence Sondhaus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-08-21

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1135989745

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A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war. It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ‘ways of war’ dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized that there was a ‘British Way in Warfare’. The concept of "strategic culture" dates from the 1970s, when Jack Snyder introduced it to explain why leaders of the Soviet Union did not behave according to rational choice theory. These ideas have gained wide acceptance among historians of international politics and warfare, and remain controversial for political scientists seeking general or universal theoretical understanding of such subjects. Because political scientists have focused on strategic culture and historians on ways of war, this work will greatly benefit both audiences and provide each with valuable exposure to the ideas of the other.