Warfare in the Middle East since 1945
The International Library of Essays on Military History
Series Editor: Jeremy Black
Titles in the Series:
Modern Counter-Insurgency
Ian Beckett
Warfare in Europe 16501792
Jeremy Black
Warfare in the Middle East since 1945
Ahron Bregman
The English Civil War
Stanley D.M. Carpenter
Warfare in Latin America, Volumes I and II
Miguel A. Centeno
United States Military History 1865 to the Present Day
Jeffery Charlston
Medieval Warfare 13001450
Kelly DeVries
Medieval Warfare 10001300
John France
Warfare in the Dark Ages
John France and Kelly DeVries
Naval History 15001680
Jan Glete
Byzantine Warfare
John Haldon
Warfare in Early Modern Europe 14501660
Paul E.J. Hammer
Naval History 16801850
Richard Harding
Warfare in Europe 19191938
Geoffrey Jensen
Warfare in Japan
Harald Kleinschmidt
Naval History 1850Present, Volumes I and II
Andrew Lambert
African Military History
John Lamphear
Warfare in China to 1600
Peter Lorge
World War I
Michael Neiberg
The Army of Imperial Rome
Michael F. Pavkovic
The Army of the Roman Republic
Michael F Pavkovic
The American Civil War
Ethan S. Rafuse
The British Army 18151914
Harold E. Raugh, Jr
The Russian Imperial Army 17961917
Roger Reese
Medieval Ships and Warfare
Susan Rose
Warfare in Europe 17921815
Frederick Schneid
The Second World War
Nick Smart
Warfare in China Since 1600
Kenneth Swope
Warfare in the USA 17841861
Samuel Watson
The Armies of Classical Greece
Everett Wheeler
The Vietnam War
James H. Willbanks
Warfare in Europe 18151914
Peter H. Wilson
Warfare in the Middle East since 1945
Edited by
Ahron Bregman
Kings College London, UK
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Warfare in the Middle East since 1945, - (The international library of essays on military history)
1. Military art and science - Middle East - History - 20th century 2. Arab-Israeli conflict 3. Middle East - History, Military - 20th century
I. Bregman, Ahron
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Contents
The editor and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material.
Foreign Affairs online for the essay: Gal Luft (2002), The Palestinian H-Bomb: Terrors Winning Strategy, Foreign Affairs, , pp. 27. Copyright 2002 by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. www.ForeignAffairs.org
Journal of Military History for the essay Uri Bar-Joseph (2008), Strategic Surprise or Fundamental Flaws?: The Sources of Israels Military Defeat at the Beginning of the 1973 War, The Journal of Military History, , pp. 50930. Copyright 2008 by the Society for Military History, all rights reserved.
John Yoo for the essay: John Yoo (2003), International Law and the War in Iraq, The American Journal of International Law, , pp. 56376.
MIT Press for the essays: Avner Yaniv and Robert J. Lieber (1983), Personal Whim or Strategic Imperative?: The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, International Security, , pp. 11742. Copyright 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Thomas L. McNaugher (1990), Ballistic Missiles and Chemical Weapons: The Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War, International Security, , pp. 534. Copyright 1990 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daryl G. Press (2001), The Myth of Air Power in the Persian Gulf War and the Future of Warfare, International Security, , pp. 544. Copyright 2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Middle East Journal for the essay: F. Gregory Gause, III (2002), Iraqs Decisions to Go to War, 1980 and 1990, Middle East Journal, , pp. 4770.
Taylor and Francis for the essays: David Tal (2005), The Historiography of the 1948 War in Palestine: The Missing Dimension, The Journal of Israeli History, , pp. 183202. Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis; Kenneth M. Pollack (2005), Air Power in the Six-Day War, The Journal of Strategic Studies, , pp. 471503. Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd; Elie Podeh (2002), The Big Lie: Inventing the Myth of British-US Involvement in the 1967 War, The Review of International Affairs, , pp. 123; Dima Adamsky and Uri Bar-Joseph (2006), The Russians are not Coming, Israels Intelligence Failure and Soviet Military Intervention in the War of Attrition, Intelligence and National Security, , pp. 125. Copyright 2006 Taylor & Francis; Hakan Tun (2005), What Was it All About After All? The Causes of the Iraq War, Contemporary Security Policy, , pp. 33555. Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd; Avi Kober (2005), Does the Iraq War Reflect a Phase Change in Warfare?, Defence and Security Analysis, , pp. 12142. Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd; Sergio Catignani (2005), The Strategic Impasse in Low-Intensity Conflicts: The Gap between Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and Tactics during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, The Journal of Strategic Studies, , pp. 5775. Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd (Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandf.co.uk/joumals).
University of California Press for the essays: Yezid Sayigh (1983), Palestinian Military Performance in the 1982 War, Journal of Palestine Studies, , pp. 324; Augustus Richard Norton (2000), Hizballah and the Israeli Withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, Journal of Palestine Studies, , pp. 2235.
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