Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 14, 2017).
Contents
Cover; Halftitle; Title Page; Copyright; 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 ConceptThe 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.