Air operations in Israel's war against Hezbollah (Record no. 123460)
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| fixed length control field | 03294nam a2200445 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 956.9204/5248 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Lambeth, Benjamin S. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Air operations in Israel's war against Hezbollah |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Santa Monica, Calif. : |
| Name of publisher | RAND Corporation, |
| Year of publication | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxxiii, 388 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Project Air Force.". |
| General note | "MG-835-AF"--P. [4] of cover. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- Highlights of the campaign -- Key Israeli air accomplishments -- Problems in air employment -- The Winograd Commission's findings -- A second chance in Gaza -- The Second Lebanon War reconsidered. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In response to a surprise incursion by Hezbollah combatants into northern Israel and their abduction of two Israeli soldiers, Israel launched a campaign that included the most complex air offensive to have taken place in the history of the Israeli Air Force (IAF). Many believe that the inconclusive results of this war represent a "failure of air power." The author demonstrates that this conclusion is an oversimplification of a more complex reality. He assesses the main details associated with the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF's) campaign against Hezbollah to correct the record regarding what Israeli air power did and did not accomplish (and promise to accomplish) in the course of contributing to that campaign. He considers IAF operations in the larger context of the numerous premises, constraints, and ultimate errors in both military and civilian leadership strategy choice that drove the Israeli government's decisionmaking throughout the counteroffensive. He also examines the IDF's more successful operation against the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009, to provide points of comparison and contrast in the IDF's conduct of the latter campaign based on lessons learned and assimilated from its earlier combat experience in Lebanon.--Publisher description. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Lebanon War, 2006 |
| Topical Term | Arab-Israeli conflict |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10488710 |
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