Air operations in Israel's war against Hezbollah [electronic resource] : learning from Lebanon and getting it right in Gaza / Benjamin S. Lambeth.
Lambeth, Benjamin S.; Rand Corporation.; Project Air Force (U.S.)
2011
DS87.65 .L36 2011eb
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Title Air operations in Israel's war against Hezbollah [electronic resource] : learning from Lebanon and getting it right in Gaza / Benjamin S. Lambeth.
Author Lambeth, Benjamin S.
ISBN 9780833051462 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0833051466 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780833058430 (e-book)
Imprint Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, 2011.
Language English
Description xxxiii, 388 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number DS87.65 .L36 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 956.9204/5248
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.
Note "Project Air Force.".
"MG-835-AF"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index.
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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.

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