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From Cast Lead to Protective Edge : lessons from Israel's wars in Gaza /

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 2...

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Main Authors: Cohen, Raphael S. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Arroyo Center. Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program.; Rand Corporation.
Published: RAND Corporation,
Publisher Address: Santa Monica, CA :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1888-A
Subjects:
United States. > Army > Operational readiness.
Asymmetric warfare > 21st century.
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) > 21st century.
Military planning > United States > 21st century.
Armed Forces > Operational readiness.
United States > Military policy > 21st century.
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.
Item Description: "RAND Arroyo Center."
"Prepared for the United States Army."
"This research was ... conducted within the RAND Arroyo Center's Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program"--Preface.
Carrier Form: xix, 225 pages : illustrations, maps, form ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-225).
ISBN: 9780833097873 (paperback) :
0833097873 (paperback)
Index Number: U163
CLC: E86
Call Number: E86/C678
Contents: Introduction -- Israel in Gaza: A Brief Background -- Operation Pillar of Defense, 2012 -- Operation Protective Edge, 2014 -- Protective Edge's Other Fronts -- Lessons of Israel's Experience in Protective Edge -- Recommendations for the U.S. Army and the Joint Force.

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