The Israeli secret services and the struggle against terrorism /
Ami Pedahzur argues that Israel's strict reliance on the elite units of the intelligence community is fundamentally flawed. Pedahzur's complex study explores this issue through Israel's past encounters with terrorists, specifically hostage rescue missions, the first and second wars in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Ami Pedahzur argues that Israel's strict reliance on the elite units of the intelligence community is fundamentally flawed. Pedahzur's complex study explores this issue through Israel's past encounters with terrorists, specifically hostage rescue missions, the first and second wars in Lebanon, the challenges of the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian terrorist groups, and Hezbollah. He brings a rare transparency to Israel's counterterrorist activities, highlighting their successes and failures and the factors that have contributed to these results. From the foundations of this analysis, Pedahzur ultimately builds a strategy for future confrontation that will be relevant not only to Israel but also to other countries that have adopted Israel's intelligence-based model. --from publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231511612 0231511612 0231140436 9780231140430 1282796348 9781282796348 9786612796340 6612796340 |
