Practical soldiers: Israel's military thought and its formative factors
In: History of Warfare Volume 107
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In: History of Warfare Volume 107
In: Middle Eastern military studies
In: Middle Eastern military studies
This book analyzes the way Israel has coped with nine wars of attrition from the 1950s to the recent Second Lebanon War (2006), questioning the belief that Western democracy cannot sustain prolonged wars of attrition.
In: Arms Races in International Politics, S. 205-224
In: Armed forces & society, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 96-122
ISSN: 1556-0848
Since the late 1970s Israel has been operating postheroically, with postheroic behavior gradually becoming an integral part of its strategic culture and way of war, and often coming at the expense of mission fulfillment. In the Israeli case, the strongest explanation for such behavior has been the marriage of two factors: Israel's engagement in low-intensity conflicts (LICs), which have not threatened its basic security, let alone its existence, and sophisticated technology, which has played a significant facilitating role in applying postheroic warfare. Sparing the lives of the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF's) own troops and of enemy civilians helped gaining greater domestic and legitimacy, as well as greater sustainability in LICs. On the other hand, living up to postheroic warfare's rules had a price not only in terms of fulfilling the military missions, but also in terms of sensitivity to unexpected, sometimes sudden leaps in casualties and/or collateral damage; the danger of lowering the threshold war; and asymmetry with enemies that do not cooperate with postheroic rules and rather fight heroically. The analysis of the Israeli case covers the LIC events Israel has been engaged in from the 1978 Operation Litani, in which postheroic warfare was detected for the same time, to the more recent 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society/Sage Publications Inc.]
In: Armed forces & society: official journal of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society : an interdisciplinary journal, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 96-122
ISSN: 0095-327X
In: Armed forces & society, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 96-122
ISSN: 1556-0848
Since the late 1970s Israel has been operating postheroically, with postheroic behavior gradually becoming an integral part of its strategic culture and way of war, and often coming at the expense of mission fulfillment. In the Israeli case, the strongest explanation for such behavior has been the marriage of two factors: Israel's engagement in low-intensity conflicts (LICs), which have not threatened its basic security, let alone its existence, and sophisticated technology, which has played a significant facilitating role in applying postheroic warfare. Sparing the lives of the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF's) own troops and of enemy civilians helped gaining greater domestic and legitimacy, as well as greater sustainability in LICs. On the other hand, living up to postheroic warfare's rules had a price not only in terms of fulfilling the military missions, but also in terms of sensitivity to unexpected, sometimes sudden leaps in casualties and/or collateral damage; the danger of lowering the threshold war; and asymmetry with enemies that do not cooperate with postheroic rules and rather fight heroically. The analysis of the Israeli case covers the LIC events Israel has been engaged in from the 1978 Operation Litani, in which postheroic warfare was detected for the same time, to the more recent 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense.
In: The Middle East journal, Band 67, Heft 2, S. 318-319
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: The journal of strategic studies, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 707-732
ISSN: 1743-937X
In: Clausewitz goes global: Carl von Clausewitz in the 21th century ; commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Clausewitz Society, S. 150-172
In: The journal of strategic studies, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 707-733
ISSN: 0140-2390
In: The Evolution of Operational Art, S. 166-190
In: The journal of strategic studies, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 3-40
ISSN: 1743-937X
In: The journal of strategic studies, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 3-40
ISSN: 0140-2390
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