Sword and Shield of Zion / The Israel Air Force in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-2012 - Rodman, David
the Israel Air Force in the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-2012
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The Israel Air Force (IAF) has accumulated as much battle experience as any air force in the world during the post-Second World War era. It has recorded many outstanding accomplishments throughout a seemingly endless string of interstate wars, asymmetrical wars, counterinsurgency campaigns, and special operations. Sword and Shield of Zion examines the IAF's experience in the Arab-Israeli conflict, from the establishment of Israel in 1948 to the present day. The book analyzes this experience through the prisms of maneuver warfare, attrition warfare, counterinsurgency warfare, special operations, and humanitarian operations. It reviews the IAF's performance in such wars as the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1969-70 War of Attrition, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and the 2008-09 Gaza War. Also, the book scrutinizes the IAF's participation in major counterinsurgency campaigns and special operations, traces its experience with unmanned aerial vehicles - which have occupied a very prominent place in ...
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2013Uitgever: Sussex Academic Press153 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1845195833ISBN-13: 9781845195830Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2013, hardcover, good copy [Auteur: Rodman, David] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Sussex Academic Press] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Sword and Shield of Zion / The Israel Air Force in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-2012]
