From War to Deterrence? Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Since 2006 - Brossura

U.S. Army War College Press; Strategic Studies Institute

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1505832527 ISBN 13: 9781505832525

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Riassunto

For 7 years now, the border area between Israel and Lebanon has witnessed calm and stability. At first sight, this has all the appearances of a paradox. The 2006 war between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Lebanese organization, Hezbollah, was followed neither by a peace agreement nor by a mere diplomatic process. Both sides prepared their forces to wage the next war and additionally have been confronted in past years to major changes in the distribution of power in the Middle East in the midst of the so-called “Arab Spring.”Against all odds, the area comprising north Israel and south Lebanon remained very quiet these last months. This book argues that the key to understand this paradox is the game of deterrence played by both Israel and Hezbollah. Specifically, an informal deterrence dialogue has been developing between Israel and Hezbollah and that strategic stability prevailed because of this indirect exchange.Because both sides understood that a next round would be devastating and that each could not entirely eliminate the threat of retaliation in a first wave the solution has been to bargain deterrence, meaning to deter the other party from attacking its homeland by pledging a full-scale retaliation.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1505832527
• ISBN 13: 9781505832525
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 78