The hubris of initial victory: The IDF and the second Lebanon war

Uri Bar-Joseph

doi:10.4324/9780203865521-14

The hubris of initial victory: The IDF and the second Lebanon war

Uri Bar-Joseph

School of Political Sciences

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Abstract

The Second Lebanon War, as the Israeli Parliament decided in March 2007 to officially name the 12 July-14 August 2006 conflict between Hizbollah and Israel, has attracted an impressive body of academic literature. Among the aspects of the war that have been explored so far are the following: causes of the failures of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), 1 operational aspects, 2 Hizbollah’s method of making war, 3 its short-range rocket arsenal as a new type of challenge for the Israeli Air Force (IAF), 4 Israel’s intelligence during the war, 5 the war as a test of Israel’s deterrence capability, 6 and the implications of this conflict for US military strategy.7 In addition, a number of Israeli students used the war in order to shed light on the way democracies fight an asymmetric conflict, 8 the way a civil society functions during a military conflict, 9 and civil-military relations in Israel.10.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Israel and Hizbollah
Subtitle of host publication	An asymmetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	147-162
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781135229207
ISBN (Print)	9780415449106
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203865521-14
State	Published - 1 Jan 2009

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© 2010 Selection and editorial matter, Clive Jones and Sergio Catignani.

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