Israeli National Security

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.

Auteur
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.

Texte du rabat

The most comprehensive study to date of Israel's national security. It combines an exhaustive analysis of the military, diplomatic, demographic and societal challenges Israel faces, with the responses it has developed, to present a detailed proposal for an overall new national security strategy, the first such Israeli strategy ever published.

Contenu

• Foreword and Acknowledgements

• Acronyms

• Major Wars and Military Operations

• List of Maps, Tables, Figures

• Part I

• Introduction

• 1. Israel's Classic Defense Doctrine

• Part II: A Strategic Environment Transformed

• 2. Israel's New Strategic Setting
• 3. The Changing Military Threat
• 4. Non-Military Threats
• 5. Israeli Society and National Security

• Part III: Israel's Strategic Response

• 6. The Classic Military Response in Perspective
• 7. The Military Response Today
• 8. Nuclear and Regional Arms Control Policy
• 9. The Foreign Policy Response
• 10. The "Special Relationship"

• Part IV: A National Security Strategy for an Era of Change

• 11. Primary Conclusions
• 12. Policy Recommendations

• Appendix

• List of Interviews

• Bibliography

• Notes

• Index