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From Cast Lead to Protective Edge [electronic resource] : Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza / Raphael S. Cohen [and 6 others].

Author
Cohen, Raphael S.
Additional Titles
Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza
Published
Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2017]
Physical Description
xix, 225 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Arroyo Center and Rand Corporation
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Contents
Preface -- Figures and Table -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Short History of the Long Tradition of American-Israeli Military Learning -- Scope, Methodology, and Structure of the Report -- 2. Israel in Gaza: A Brief Background: Emergence of Palestinian Armed Opposition to Israel and the 1967 War -- The First Intifada and the Emergence of Hamas -- The Second Intifada -- Israel's Withdrawal from Gaza -- Conflict Between Hamas and Fatah -- Israel's First Gaza War: Operation Cast Lead -- 3. Operation Pillar of Defense, 2012: The Road to War: Internal Rivalries and Regional Turmoil -- How the Campaign Unfolded -- The Campaign Ends Quickly Without Use of Ground Maneuver -- Key Lessons from Operation Pillar of Defense -- 4. Operation Protective Edge, 2014: The Road to War -- Planning for Operation Protective Edge: An Imperfect Process -- Organizing for War -- Mobilization and Deployment -- Phase I: The Air Campaign (July 8-16) -- Phase II: The Ground Campaign (July 17-August 4) -- Phase III: The Illusive Cease-Fire (August 5-26) -- Aftermath of the Conflict -- 5. Protective Edge's Other Fronts: Iron Dome and the Counter-Rocket Fight During Operation Protective Edge -- The Intelligence Fight: Strategic Versus Tactical Trade-Off? -- The Cyber Fight: Protective Edge's Silent War -- The Legal Wars: Balancing Targeting and Collateral Damage -- 6. Lessons of Israel's Experience in Protective Edge: Victory Sensitivity Dominates Casualty Sensitivity -- Understanding Hybrid Actors and the Broader Strategic Environment Is Vital -- Lawfare Is Here to Stay -- Precision Firepower Has Significant Limitations -- CAS and ISR Coordination with Ground Forces Are Improving -- Tunnels Remain an Unsolved Tactical Problem, but Perhaps Not a Strategic Threat -- Reserve Component Proves Its Worth -- The IDF Still Wrestles with Other Organizational Challenges -- Iron Dome Is Effective...For Now -- Armored Vehicles Remains Key to Urban Combat -- Active Protection Systems Are Effective and Produce Indirect Benefits -- Conclusion -- 7. Recommendations for the U.S. Army and the Joint Force: What Lessons May Not Apply -- What the United States Should Learn from Protective Edge -- Recommendations for the U.S. Army and the Joint Force -- Final Thoughts -- Abbreviations -- References.
Summary
"For more than a decade now, Israel has clashed with Hamas in Gaza, in cycles of violence defined by periods of intense fighting followed by relative lulls. This report covers a five-year period of this conflict--from the end of Operation Cast Lead in 2009 to the end of Operation Protective Edge in 2014. Drawing on primary and secondary sources and an extensive set of interviews, it analyzes how an advanced military fought a determined, adaptive, hybrid adversary. It describes how the Israel Defense Force (IDF) operationally, organizationally, and technologically evolved to meet asymmetric threats. Most broadly, this report details the IDF's increasing challenge of striking a delicate balance between the intense international legal public scrutiny and the hard operational realities of modern urban warfare. In this respect, this report's title--"From Cast Lead to Protective Edge"--captures more than just the names of the two operations that chronologically bracket its scope; it also describes the tension the IDF confronted between the military necessities driving maximalist uses of force and the political imperative for more restrained operations. This report draws a series of lessons from the Israeli experience for the U.S. Army and the joint force: from the importance of armored vehicles and active protection systems to the limitations of airpower in urban terrain and of conventional militaries to deter nonstate actors"--Publisher's description.
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ISBN
0833097873
9780833097873
Note
"RR-1888-A."--Page 4 cover.
"Prepared for the United States Army."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-225).
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