03294nam a2200445 a 4500 ebr10488710 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110314s2011 cauab sb 001 0 eng d 2011009982 9780833051462 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0833051466 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780833058430 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)726939789 a-is--- a-le--- DS87.65 .L36 2011eb 956.9204/5248 22 Lambeth, Benjamin S. Air operations in Israel's war against Hezbollah [electronic resource] : learning from Lebanon and getting it right in Gaza / Benjamin S. Lambeth. Israel's war against Hezbollah Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, 2011. xxxiii, 388 p. : ill., maps. "Project Air Force.". "MG-835-AF"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index. 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. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Israel. �Hel ha-a�vir. Hizballah (Lebanon) Lebanon War, 2006 Aerial operations, Israeli. Arab-Israeli conflict 1993- Aerial operations, Israeli. Electronic books. local Rand Corporation. Project Air Force (U.S.) ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10488710 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 226414 226414