Contents
PART I. FOUNDATIONS
1 The Israeli Security Puzzle: Conceptions, Approaches, Paradoxes
PART II. THE USE OF FORCE
2 The Sinai War: The Making of the Second Round
3 The Six Day War: Playing with Fire
4 The War of Attrition: The First Payment for Arrogance
5 The Yom Kippur War: The War That Shouldn’t Have Been
6 The Lebanese Swamp, 1981–2000
7 The Unlimited Use of the Limited Use of Force: Israel and Low-Intensity Warfare
PART III. ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR POLICY
8 The Mixed Blessing of Israel’s Nuclear Policy
PART IV. FOREIGN POLICY: SHADOW AND OPEN DIPLOMACY
9 Israeli Intervention in Intra-Arab Affairs
10 Never Missing an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity: The Israeli Nonpolicy of Peace in the Middle East
PART V. CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE MISMANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY
11 The Structure and Process of National Security and Foreign Policy in Israel
12 Principal Findings and Lessons
13 If So Bad, Why So Good?: Explaining the Paradox of the Israeli Success Story
14 Paths to the Future: Scenarios and Prescriptions
Afterword: The Second Lebanon Fiasco and the Never-Ending Intifada
Notes
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index