Defense and Diplomacy in Israel's National Security Experience: Tactics, Partnerships and Motives

by David Rodman

This work defines the central concepts of Israel's national security doctrine as deterrence, geography, manpower, quantity versus quality, offensive manoeuvre warfare, conventional versus unconventional threats, self-reliance, great power patronage, and peripheral partnerships. The author describes and explains how these concepts have influenced the war fighting experience of the Israel Defense Forces, including the air force and the navy. Special...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845190734
• ISBN13: 9781845190736
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"