Israeli national security : a new strategy for an era of change / Charles D. Freilich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freilich, Chuck, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Israel.

National security.

Israel--Strategic aspects.

Israel.

Israel--Military policy.

Israel--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 472 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Israeli National Security, Chuck Freilich presents an authoritative analysis of the military, diplomatic, demographic, and societal challenges Israel faces today, to propose a comprehensive and long-term Israeli national security strategy. The heart of the new strategy places greater emphasis on restraint, defense, and diplomacy as means of addressing the challenges Israel faces, along with the military capacity to deter and, if necessary, defeat Israel's adversaries, while also maintaining the resolve of its society. By bringing Israel's most critical debates about the Palestinians, demography, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, US relations and nuclear strategy into sharp focus, the strategy Freilich proposes addresses the primary challenges Israel must address in order to chart its national course.

Contents:

Confronting a strategic nightmare

Israel's classic defense doctrine

A strategic environment transformed

Israel's new strategic setting

The changing military threat

Non-military threats

Israeli society and national security

Israel's strategic response

The classic military response in perspective

The military response today

Nuclear and regional arms control policy

The foreign policy response

The "special relationship"

A national security strategy for an era of change

A national security stragegy for an era of change

Primary conclusions

Policy recommendations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-060295-3

0-19-060296-1

OCLC:

1027167004