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Author Lambeth, Benjamin S.

Title Air operations in Israel's war against Hezbollah : learning from Lebanon and getting it right in Gaza / Benjamin S. Lambeth
Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 388 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series RAND Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Contents 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 -- Conclusions
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Israel. Ḥel ha-aṿir.
Hizballah (Lebanon)
SUBJECT Hizballah (Lebanon) fast
Israel. Ḥel ha-aṿir fast
Subject Lebanon War, 2006 -- Aerial operations, Israeli
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Aerial operations, Israeli
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
HISTORY -- Military -- Strategy.
Military operations, Aerial -- Israeli
Lebanon
Israel -- military operations.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Air Force (U.S.)
ISBN 9780833058430
0833058436
9780833058416
083305841X
Other Titles Israel's war against Hezbollah