Israel's Second Lebanon War Reconsidered

dc.creator	Benjamin S. Lambeth
dc.date	2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:14Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:14Z
dc.identifier	2307-793X
dc.identifier	2307-8634
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d98ab635e4f34568a564ccb887fc224f
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8052
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/d98ab635e4f34568a564ccb887fc224f
dc.description	Operation Change of Direction, the code name given to Israel’s war against Hizbollah in Lebanon in 2006 by the Operations Directorate of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was the most inconclusive performance by far in the IDF’s many trials by ﬁre since 1948, in that it represented the ﬁrst time that a major regional confrontation ended without a clear cut victory on Israel’s part. The campaign’s uneven course and outcome did not emanate from any particular single point failure but rather, in the words of two informed commentators, from “an overall accumulation of circumstances.” More speciﬁcally, it did not reﬂect any failure of Israel’s well endowed air arm to perform to the fullest extent of its considerable but not unlimited capabilities, as many were quick to complain. Rather, it resulted from a more overarching deﬁciency in strategy choice, whose most ﬂawed elements were inconsistency between avowed goals and the available means and will to pursue them, and the Israeli government’s initial placement of friendly casualty avoidance above mission accomplishment in its ranking of campaign priorities.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Institute for National Security Studies
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dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2307-793X
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2307-8634
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Military and Strategic Affairs, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 45-63 (2012)
dc.subject	Hizbollah
dc.subject	Hassan Nasrallah
dc.subject	IDF
dc.subject	Lebanon
dc.subject	rockets
dc.subject	IAF
dc.subject	Beirut
dc.subject	Second Lebanon War
dc.subject	Operation Change of Direction
dc.subject	Iran
dc.subject	Israel
dc.subject	failure
dc.subject	achievements
dc.subject	Hamas
dc.subject	Operation Cast Lead
dc.subject	Gaza
dc.subject	Iron Dome
dc.subject	Operation Pillar of Defense
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	Israel's Second Lebanon War Reconsidered
dc.type	Article