Research Catalog

Title

Israel facing a new Middle East : in search of a national security strategy / Itamar Rabinovich, Itai Brun.

Author

Rabinovich, Itamar, 1942-

Publication

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Brun, Itai.
• Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.

Description

142 p.; 23 cm

Series Statement

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 678

Uniform Title

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 678

Subject

• Arab-Israeli conflict
• National security > Israel
• Israel > Politics and government > 1993-
• Middle East > Politics and government > 1993-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Israel's National Security Doctrine -- David Ben Gurion's Security Review -- The Sinai Campaign -- The Six-Day War -- The War of Attrition -- The October War of 1973 -- The Israeli-Egyptian Peace -- The 1980s Ground Maneuver Crisis -- The 1982 War in Lebanon -- The Debate on the Original Operational Concept -- Lebanon's Long-Term Impact -- Chapter 2: New Challenges for Israel's National Security -- The Evolution of the Operational Concept of the "Other Side" -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- The Rise of the Organizations -- A New Operational Concept -- The First Palestinian Intifada -- Military Operations of the 1990s -- The First Gulf War -- Public Discussion on Firepower -- Accountability and Grapes of Wrath -- The IDF and Israeli Society -- The "Lebanese Mud" -- Technological Developments -- Air Force Activity in Lebanon -- A Decade of Diplomacy and New Patterns of Confrontation -- The US Perspective -- Chapter 3: Facing Reality: Lebanon and Gaza -- The Withdrawal from Lebanon -- Coping with the Second Intifada (Operation Ebb and Flow) -- A New Operational Concept -- Massive Changes in the Twenty-First Century -- The Second Lebanon War -- Was it a War? -- What Did Israel Try to Accomplish? -- What Tasks Were Assigned to the IDF? -- How Was Military Force Employed? -- First Phase -- Second Phase -- Third Phase -- A Ten-Year Retrospective -- The Gaza Challenge -- Three Military Campaigns (2008-2014) -- Operation Cast Lead -- The Mavi Marmara Affair -- Operation Pillar of Fire -- Operation Protective Edge -- Chapter 4: The Arab Spring and the Arab Turmoil: A New Middle Eastern Reality -- Israel's Immediate Response -- The IDF's Response to the New Regional Order -- Three Levels of Israeli Strategy and Security Policy; Source Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Authors

ISBN

• 0817920447
• 9780817920449

OCLC

965764869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library