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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony H Cordesman; Aram Nerguizian; Ionut C Popescu |
| ISBN: | 9780313355202 0313355207 |
| OCLC Number: | 192081656 |
| Description: | xiii, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Figures -- Sources and methods -- ch. 1. Prospects for peace or war -- Military developments after the Israeli-Hezbollah War -- Shifts on the Golan -- A growing missile threat? -- Israeli and Syrian alarms and excursions in 2007 -- Conventional military tensions -- Israeli raid on Syrian "nuclear" facilities -- The prospects for war -- ch. 2. Major trends in force strength -- Israeli force quality versus Syrian force quantity -- Looking at a snapshot of total forces -- Comparative manpower quantity and quality -- ch. 3. Comparative land force strength : active versus mobilized strength -- Comparative land force manpower -- Armor and anti-tank weapons -- Artillery weapons -- Anti-aircraft weapons -- ch. 4. Comparative air strength : quality over quantity -- Comparative air force strength -- Air force manpower -- Air force aircraft, weapons, and technology -- Comparative land-based air defense forces -- ch. 5. Comparative naval strength : peripheral missions -- Shifts in the role of seapower -- Naval manpower -- Naval ships, weapons, and technology -- ch. 6. Total resources : recapitalization, force modernization, and impact on effectiveness -- Comparative trends in military expenditures -- Comparative trends in arms imports -- Recent deals : the importance of the US, Russia and Iran -- ch. 7. The military forces of Israel -- Israel's struggle to maintain its conventional "edge" -- Adapting to asymmetric wars -- The impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- The threat from Syrian weapons of mass destruction -- Seeking to add an asymmetric "edge" to a conventional one -- Adapting to new threats while retaining conventional military strengths -- The impact of the Israeli-Hezbollah War -- Restructuring forces to meet new mission needs -- Trends in manpower and total force strength before the 2006 Lebanon war : active versus reserve forces -- The "Kela 2008 plan" -- Kushet (Rainbow) plan -- Israeli defense planning after the 2006 Lebanon war -- The Winograd Commission -- Post-Hezbollah War reforms -- The Teffen 2012 five-year plan : implementing lessons learned? -- Israeli land forces -- Israeli air forces -- Land force transformation -- Changes in command and control and netcentric warfare -- Main battle tanks -- Other armor -- Antitank weapons -- Upgrading lighter vehicles and support forces -- Artillery forces -- Asymmetric warfare capabilities -- Other aspects of land force development -- Israeli land-based air defenses -- IAF fixed-wing combat forces -- IAF rotary-wing combat forces -- IAF "enablers" -- Modern air operations "Are" joint operations -- Air defense and air-to-air combat capability -- Air offense and air-to-ground combat capability -- Air operations for asymmetric warfare -- IAF readiness and training standards -- Current superiority and future challenges -- Israeli naval forces -- Surface fleet developments -- Smaller surface ships -- Submarine forces -- Amphibious forces -- Naval aviation -- The Navy's role in asymmetric warfare -- Naval readiness and mission capability -- Israel's counterterrorism and internal security forces -- Israeli capabilities -- Israeli terrorist groups -- Internal security versus human rights and political impacts -- Israeli weapons of mass destruction and missile defenses -- Probable Israeli capabilities -- Shifts in Israeli missile defenses -- ch. 8. The military forces of Syria -- Syria's long proxy war with Israel -- Internal stability, Alawite rule, and the Shi'ite crescent -- Syria's broader regional issues -- The trends in Syrian forces -- The Syrian modernization and recapitalization crisis -- The Russian connection -- Future arms deliveries -- Continuing to go "hollow" -- Syrian land forces -- Syrian force strengths and deployments -- Syrian main battle tanks -- Syrian other armored vehicles -- Syrian antitank weapons -- Syrian artillery -- Syrian rocket forces -- Syrian army air defenses -- Syrian army training, readiness, and warfighting capability -- Syrian air and air defense forces -- Syrian combat air strength -- Syrian rotary-wing combat strength -- Syrian air force training, readiness, and warfighting capabilities -- Syrian land-based air defenses -- Syrian air-defense weapons -- Shorter range Syrian air defenses -- Syrian air-defense training, readiness, and warfighting capabilities -- Syria's need for air-defense modernization -- Syrian naval forces -- Syrian surface forces -- Syrian amphibious capability -- Syrian naval aviation -- Syrian coastal-defense forces -- Syrian naval readiness, training, and warfighting capability -- Syrian paramilitary, security, and intelligence forces -- Syrian weapons of mass destruction -- The strategic geography of the Golan Heights -- The new dimensions of the strategic geography of the Golan -- The UN peacekeeping force on the Golan -- Israeli positions on the Golan -- Syrian positions near the Golan -- A Syrian surprise attack or "grab for the Golan -- Syrian options and motives -- The operational challenges Syria would face -- The risk of air and missile escalation -- Israeli options against Syria -- The cost of an IDF advance into Syria -- Israel's ability to use the AirLand battle in offensive operations -- Israel's deep strike and strategic air option -- Assessing the balance of risks -- ch. 10. Continuing external asymmetric wars -- Israel's "haves" versus Syria's "haves not" -- Syria's real-world strategic priorities versus asymmetric adventures -- The cost-benefits of the "spoiler" game -- The possible impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Gaming a future Israeli-Hezbollah conflict? -- The Lebanese "wild card" -- The Lebanese armed forces -- Hezbollah's domestic and international posture -- The Iranian wild card -- Iranian proliferation -- The Israeli view and the uncertain Iranian strategic calculus -- Iran and the prospects for future military strike -- Possible Iranian response -- Shifts in Israeli strategic nuclear forces -- Notes. |
| Responsibility: | Anthony H. Cordesman ; with the assistance of Aram Nerguizian and Ionut C. Popescu. |
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