This book is devoted to Israel’s asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it. It seeks to understand the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorists acting under the guise of civilians or using the population as human shields. The army has implemented a loosely devised, if not simplistic, doctrine of ‘disproportionate response’ since Israel’s founding. The results have been mediocre, nearly always leading to the death of innocent Arab...
สารบัญ
PART ONE: THE GENEALOGY OF ‘DISPROPORTIONATE COUNTERATTACK’ Democracies Facing the Challenge of Asymmetric Warfare The Genesis of a Doctrine ‘Peace in Galilee’ and the Making...
เกี่ยวกับผู้แต่ง
SAMY COHEN is Senior Research Fellow at CERI (Centre for International Studies and Research) Sciences Po, Paris, France.