Title Israel's death hierarchy : casualty aversion in a militarized democracy / Yagil Levy

Published New York : New York University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Series Warfare and culture series Warfare and culture series. Contents The right to protect and the right to protection -- Unbalancing and balancing the rights -- Bereavement-motivated collective actors -- Bereavement-motivated collective actors: a comparison -- The death hierarchy -- Casualty sensitivity breeds high lethality -- Casualty sensitivity and political-military relations Summary Whose life is worth more? That is the question that states inevitably face during wartime. Which troops are thrown to the first lines of battle and which ones remain relatively intact? How can various categories of civilian populations be protected? And when front and rear are porous, whose life should receive priority, those of soldiers or those of civilians? In this book, the author uses Israel as a compelling case study to explore the global dynamics and security implications of casualty sensitivity. Israel, he argues, originally chose to risk soldiers mobilized from privileged classes, more than civilians and other soldiers. However, with the mounting of casualty sensitivity, the state gradually restructured what Levy calls its death hierarchy to favor privileged soldiers over soldiers drawn from lower classes and civilians, and later to place enemy civilians at the bottom of the hierarchy by the use of heavy firepower. The state thus shifted risk from soldiers to civilians. As the Gaza offensive of 2009 demonstrates, this new death hierarchy has opened Israel to global criticism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Israel gnd Subject Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel -- Regulations SUBJECT Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel fast Subject Casualty aversion (Military science) -- Israel Civil-military relations -- Israel HISTORY -- Military -- Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel. Casualty aversion (Military science) Civil-military relations Military policy Militärpolitik Zivilbevölkerung SUBJECT Israel -- Military policy Subject Israel Genre/Form Rules Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814753354 0814753353 9780814738337 0814738338

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