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Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change [Hardback]

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(Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs)
  • Formāts: Hardback, 496 pages, height x width x depth: 155x236x41 mm, weight: 794 g, 7 illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 26-Apr-2018
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0190602937
  • ISBN-13: 9780190602932
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Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of ChangePalielināt
  • Formāts: Hardback, 496 pages, height x width x depth: 155x236x41 mm, weight: 794 g, 7 illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 26-Apr-2018
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0190602937
  • ISBN-13: 9780190602932
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National security has been at the forefront of the Israeli experience for seven decades, with threats ranging from terrorism, to vast rocket and missile arsenals, and even existential nuclear dangers. Yet, despite its overwhelming preoccupation with foreign and defense affairs, Israel does not have a formal national security strategy.

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.

The most comprehensive study of Israel's national security to date, this book presents the first public proposal for a comprehensive Israeli national security strategy and prescribes an actionable course forward.

Recenzijas

Charles Freilich's extraordinary new book is a unique contribution to the growing literature on Israeli security affairs. Its importance lies as well in the premise that security issues have been paramount and highly impactful on the general Israeli agenda-politically, socially, and culturally. * Meir Elran, Institute for National Security Studies, Israel Studies Review * Freilich's scholarship is indispensable to understanding Israel's foreign and security policy, and all students of the Middle East will immensely benefit from his work * Baris Kesgin, Elon University * For a more holistic analysis of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, I highly recommend Charles D. Freilich's April 2018 "Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change". * Daniel J Levy, Jewish News * A limited review such as this one, of course, cannot do justice to the extraordinary scope and sophistication of Freilich's treatise. Suffice it to say that his book undoubtedly offers the finest, most nuanced and incisive description and analysis of Israel's national security experience, historical and contemporary alike, compiled to date. * David Rodman, ISRAEL AFFAIRS *

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
List of Abbreviations
xxi
List of Major Wars and Military Operations
xxiii
PART ONE CONFRONTING A STRATEGIC NIGHTMARE
Introduction
3(11)
1 Israel's Classic Defense Doctrine
14(19)
The Strategic Setting
14(3)
Strategic Constraints
17(6)
Geography as a Strategic Nightmare
17(2)
Fundamental Asymmetries
19(3)
Great Power Intervention
22(1)
The Classic Response
23(10)
"The Three Pillars": Deterrence, Early Warning, and Military Decision
23(1)
"The Few against the Many," or Quality over Quantity
24(1)
"A Nation in Arms"
25(1)
Status Quo
26(1)
"Defensive Strategy, Executed Offensively"
26(2)
Defensible Borders
28(1)
Great Power Alliances
28(1)
Strategic Autonomy and Self-Reliance
29(1)
Pursuing Peace
29(1)
Nation Building and Socioeconomic Policy
29(4)
PART TWO A STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT TRANSFORMED
2 Israel's New Strategic Setting
33(29)
Changes In the Strategic Environment
34(5)
The Uniquely Long and Bitter Conflict Is No Longer as Extreme and Existential
34(4)
No Longer Just "Wars of No Choice"
38(1)
The Primary Threats Are No Longer Conventional Military Attack
38(1)
No Longer Quite a "Nation Dwelling Alone"
38(1)
Changing Strategic Constraints
39(10)
The Changing Importance of Geography and Territory
40(2)
Changing Asymmetries
42(6)
Changing Nature of Superpower Intervention
48(1)
Israel's Strategic Environment Today
49(11)
Primary Observations
60(2)
3 The Changing Military Threat
62(30)
Conventional Military Threats
63(4)
Irregularand Asymmetric Threats
67(20)
The Rocket and Missile Threats
73(6)
Terrorism
79(4)
Unconventional Threats
83(3)
The Cyber-threat
86(1)
Future Peace Agreements: Some Security Dimensions
87(3)
Primary Observations
90(2)
4 Nonmilitary Threats
92(25)
Diplomatic Warfare, Delegitimization, Boycotts, and Sanctions
93(16)
Diplomatic Warfare and Isolation
95(4)
The Delegitimization and Boycott Campaign
99(7)
The Media Campaign
106(3)
Demography: A Nonlethal Existential Threat
109(6)
Primary Observations
115(2)
5 Israeli Society and National Security
117(48)
Israel's Changing Society
119(9)
Rise of an Affluent Market Economy
119(1)
A Liberal Culture for an Affluent Society
120(3)
Ethnicity and Religiosity: A Domestic Demographic Crisis in the Making
123(5)
Societal Willingness to Bear the Defense Burden
128(24)
The Motivation to Serve
128(7)
Casualty Aversion
135(5)
Willingness to Pay for Defense Expenditures
140(1)
The National Consensus
141(7)
Emigration
148(1)
Societal Resilience
149(3)
Ramifications of Societal Change for Israel's National Security Strategy
152(9)
Ramifications for the IDF's Identity and Structure
152(2)
Ramifications for IDF Operations
154(3)
Ramifications for National Security Decision-Making
157(4)
Primary Observations
161(4)
PART THREE ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC RESPONSE
6 The Classic Military Response in Perspective
165(38)
The "Three Pillars"
166(20)
Deterrence: Mixed Results, Ongoing Importance
166(8)
Early Warning: At Least as Important, Harder to Achieve
174(1)
Military Decision: Much Harder to Achieve
175(8)
The "Defensive Pillar": An Unwanted Stepchild
183(3)
No Longer Quite "The Few Against the Many"
186(1)
Still Mostly A "Nation In Arms"
187(1)
Increasing Difficulty In Executing A Defensive Strategy Offensively
187(3)
Pre-emption Has Rarely Been Feasible
189(1)
Inflexible Defense Remains the Guiding Concept
189(1)
Longer Wars
190(1)
Defensible Borders
190(1)
Great Power Alliance, But Strategic Autonomy: Israel Can No Longer Go It Alone
191(3)
Updating the Defense Doctrine: Past Attempts At Reform
194(7)
Primary Observations
201(2)
7 The Military Response Today
203(31)
The Conventional Military Response
204(4)
Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare
208(9)
Offensive Measures
208(1)
Defensive Measures
209(1)
Diplomatic Measures
210(7)
Countering the Rocket and Missile Threats
217(8)
Israel's Rocket and Missile Defense: Advantages and Disadvantages
221(4)
The Campaigns and the "Campaign Between the Campaigns" ("Mabam")
225(4)
The Cyber-Response
229(3)
Primary Observations
232(2)
8 Nuclear and Regional Arms Control Policy
234(24)
Nuclear Policy
235(11)
Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control Policy
246(2)
Prevention and Counterproliferation
248(2)
Defensive Measures
250(1)
Conclusions and Conundrums
250(6)
Option 1 Preserve Nuclear Ambiguity, Seek Gradual Legitimization
251(1)
Option 2 End Ambiguity
252(1)
Option 3 Covert Operations, Military Action, or Both
253(1)
Option 4 A US Security Guarantee
254(1)
Option 5 Regional Alliance and Security Guarantee
254(1)
Option 6 Regional Disarmament, WMD-Free Zone
255(1)
Primary Observations
256(2)
9 The Foreign Policy Response
258(31)
Israel's Foreign Policy: Primary Characteristics
258(18)
A Historic Legacy and Primal Sense of Insecurity
258(2)
Promoting Zionism and the Interests of the Jewish People
260(4)
No Overarching Strategy
264(1)
Diplomacy as an Instrument of Defense Policy
265(1)
Pragmatism with Strong Ideological Elements
266(1)
Promoting Legitimacy and Acceptance
267(1)
Wielding "Soft Power"
268(3)
Promoting Superpower Alliances, with Strategic Autonomy
271(1)
Pursuing Peace, but Security above All
271(2)
Limited Multilateral Involvement
273(2)
Playing to the Periphery and Arab Divisions
275(1)
Israel's Foreign Relations: A Contemporary Overview
276(11)
Diplomacy in Support of Israel's Primary Relations
277(4)
Diplomacy in Support of Peace
281(2)
Diplomacy in Support of Strategic Partnerships
283(2)
Diplomacy in Support of Economic Growth
285(1)
Covert Diplomacy and Arms Sales in Support of Israel's Foreign Relations
285(2)
Primary Observations
287(2)
10 The "Special Relationship"
289(36)
The Strategic Relationship: An Overview
290(18)
The Economic Dimension
290(1)
The Military Dimension
291(15)
The Diplomatic Dimension
306(2)
Three Critical Questions
308(12)
Question 1 Has Israel Lost Its Independence to the United States?
308(7)
Question 2 Can Israel Survive Today without the United States?
315(2)
Question 3 Where Is the US-Israeli Relationship Heading?
317(3)
Primary Observations
320(5)
PART FOUR A NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY FOR AN ERA OF CHANGE
11 Primary Conclusions
325(15)
General Conclusions
328(2)
Politico-Military Conclusions
330(4)
Military Conclusions
334(4)
Domestic Policy
338(2)
12 Policy Recommendations
340(45)
Politico-Military Policy Recommendations
341(18)
Military Policy Recommendations
359(19)
Domestic Policy Recommendations
378(6)
Conclusion
384(1)
Appendix: UN Resolutions on Israel and Select Countries 385(10)
List of Interviews 395(2)
Notes 397(34)
Bibliography 431(18)
Index 449
Charles D. Freilich, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser, is a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, specializing in Israeli national security strategy, US-Middle East policy, and Middle Eastern affairs. He teaches political science at Harvard, NYU, and the Herzliya Inter-Disciplinary Center. He is also the author of Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy.