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The reality of the Arab-Israeli balance now consists of two subordinate balances: Israel versus Syria and Israel versus the Palestinians. This book analyzes these two balances and their impact on defense planning in each country and on the overall strategic risk to the region as a whole. It covers military developments in each of six states - Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine - and provides an analytical view of how the changing natures of the military and political threats faced by each is impacting its military force readiness and development.Cordesman has the most comprehensive data on past, current, and future military force structure currently available, and this book is the first to deal with the effects on the Arab-Israeli military balance of the strategic uncertainty created by the Iraqi insurgency and the Iranian nuclear program. It also studies how the Gaza pullout, the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, the changing political landscape in Israel, and the threat of nuclear proliferation are having impacts on the Egyptian-Israeli and Jordanian-Israeli peace accords and the prospects for a settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis. The roles of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are analyzed in light of the changing political landscape in both Israel and Palestine. Given the role of Syria in Palestinian-Israeli affairs, the book also explores the ways that internal instability in Lebanon could escalate into a regional conflict.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Warfare & defence War & defence operations

• Full title: Arab-Israeli Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric Wars
• Author: Anthony H. Cordesman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780804759670
• ISBN: 0804759677
• ID: 04718521
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. March 2008

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