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In response to a surprise incursion by Hezbollah combatants into northern Israel and their abduction of two Israeli soldiers, Israel launched a campaign that included the most complex air offensive to have taken place in the history of the Israeli Air Force (IAF). Many believe that the inconclusive results of this war represent a "failure of air power." The author demonstrates that this conclusion is an oversimplification of a more complex reality. He assesses the main details associated with the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF's) campaign against Hezbollah to correct the record regarding what Israeli air power did and did not accomplish (and promise to accomplish) in the course of contributing to that campaign. He considers IAF operations in the larger context of the numerous premises, constraints, and ultimate errors in both military and civilian leadership strategy choice that drove the Israeli government's decisionmaking throughout the counteroffensive. He also examines the IDF's more successful operation against the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009, to provide points of comparison and contrast in the IDF's conduct of the latter campaign based on lessons learned and assimilated from its earlier combat experience in Lebanon.--Publisher description.

Lebanon War, 2006 --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- #SBIB:327.5H22 --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- #SBIB:328H513 --- #SBIB:328H514 --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Palestinian Arabs --- Hezbollah-Israel War, 2006 --- Israel-Hezbollah War, 2006 --- Israel-Lebanon War, 2006 --- July War, 2006 --- Lebanon-Israel War, 2006 --- Second Lebanon War, 2006 --- Aerial operations, Israeli. --- Ontwapeningsproblemen - bewapening --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Instellingen en beleid: Palestijnen --- Instellingen en beleid: Israël --- History --- Israel. --- Hizballah (Lebanon) --- Ḥizb Allāh (Lebanon) --- Hezbollah (Lebanon) --- Hizbollah (Lebanon) --- Mifleget ha-El (Lebanon) --- Hizbullah (Lebanon) --- Hezbullah (Lebanon) --- חזבאללה --- חיזבאללה --- حزب الله --- حزب الله (لبنان) --- حزب الله (Lebanon) --- Hezballah (Lebanon) --- IAF --- חיל האויר --- חיל־האוויר --- חיל־האוויר הישראלי --- חיל־האויר הישראלי --- ישראל --- ישראל. --- Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Aerial operations, Israeli. --- Hizballah (Lebanon). --- Israel. Hel ha-avir. --- Lebanon War, 2006 -- Aerial operations, Israeli. --- Aerial operations, Israeli