Israel's Wars, 1947-93

188 Pages·2001·1.06 MB·English

by  Ahron Bregman

Israel’s Wars, 1947–93
Warfare and History
General Editor
Jeremy Black
Professor of History, University of Exeter
European warfare, 1660–1815
Jeremy Black
The Great War, 1914–18
Spencer C. Tucker
Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830–1914
Bruce Vandervort
German armies: war and German politics, 1648–1806
Peter H. Wilson
Ottoman warfare, 1500–1700
Rhoads Murphey
Seapower and naval warfare, 1650–1830
Richard Harding
Air power in the age of total war, 1900–60
John Buckley
Frontiersmen: warfare in Africa since 1950
Anthony Clayton
Western warfare in the age of the Crusades, 1000–1300
John France
The Korean War
Stanley Sandler
European and Native-American warfare, 1675–1815
Armstrong Starkey
Vietnam
Spencer C. Tucker
The War for Independence and the transformation of American society
Harry M. Ward
Warfare, state and society in the Byzantine world, 565–1204
John Haldon
Soviet military system
Roger Reese
Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800
John K. Thornton
The Soviet military experience
Roger Reese
Warfare at sea, 1500–1650
Jan Glete
Warfare and society in Europe, 1792–1914
Geoffrey Wawro
Israel’s Wars, 1947–93
Ahron Bregman

Israel’s Wars, 1947–93
Ahron Bregman
London and NewYork
First published 2000
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
© 2000 Ahron Bregman
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any
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without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Bregman, Ahron.
Israel’s wars, 1947–93 / Ahron Bregman.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Arab–Israeli conflict. I.Title.
DS119.76.B74 2000
956.04–dc21 99-054115
ISBN 0–415–21467–X (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–21468–8 (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-13244-0 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-17978-1 (Glassbook Format)
In memory of my great uncle
Ahron Friedman
killed in the 1948 War of Independence

Contents
List of maps x
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiv
1 The 1947–9 war 1
2 A nation-in-arms 1949–67 26
3 The six bad years 1967–73 41
4 War and peace 1973–9 66
5 War in Lebanon 1982 95
6 Intifada 1987–93 118
7 Conclusions 134
Notes 138
Select bibliography 163
Index 166
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