... Defense Forces (IDF) approach to counterinsurgency and gives detailed analysis of specific practices implemented in the Second Intifada. The chapter describes the role of civilians in the Israeli approach to counterinsurgency and its importance in revealing a conflict between the principles...

... that organizational efforts must be invested not only in curbing violence but also in producing it. It also analyzes the trajectory of control in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with efforts to shape and direct the disparate interests of Israeli youth before enlistment, military training, and operational deployment...

... developed capabilities and stature of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and military intelligence services. The Ministry of Defense is responsible for arms procurement, the defense industries and arms exports, and, together with the IDF, the defense budget. The defense minister has...

... at the cabinet level; Israel's government is characterized by a degree of semi-organized anarchy; the DMP has a comparatively uninstitutionalized nature; the defense establishment, especially the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and defense considerations exert an unusual degree of influence on the DMP. The chapter...

... the political aspects of the invasion and how the invasion relates to the Israeli government's semi-organized anarchy, along with the disconnection between policy input and output in the DMP. It also discusses the role of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the defense establishment in the DMP of the Lebanon...

... Prevail High High High Low Low High Low High High Mod. High High High High High Mod. = Moderate This chapter examines Israel's second war with Lebanon, which erupted in 2006 after two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were kidnapped and eight killed...

... of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the defense establishment in the DMP of the withdrawal. The withdrawal process, as with most of Barak’s decisions, was a one-man show. By the spring of 2000, however, the concept of unilateral withdrawal had largely become a consensual issue and was thus not a case...

.... It cites the unplanned nature of Israel's specific national security decision-making process (DMP) as well as the primacy of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the defense establishment as the two most strongly substantiated pathologies; the politicized and uninstitutionalized nature of the DMP were...

... and inappropriate. The chapter analyzes the processes through which soldiers go to accept violence as legitimate, including what are the limits of these processes. It draws on a detailed case study of the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) repression of the Palestinian insurgency from 2000 to 2005, known as the Second...

... government is characterized by a degree of semi-organized anarchy. Fourth, the DMP has a comparatively uninstitutionalized nature. Finally, the defense establishment, especially the Israel Defense Forces, and defense considerations have an unusual degree of influence on the DMP. The chapter also provides...

... assesses Camp David II in relation to the Israeli government's semi-organized anarchy, along with the role of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the defense establishment in the DMP aspect of the negotiations. The defense establishment, first and foremost the IDF, was deeply involved...

... politics, coalition machinations, and public involvement. Finally, it assesses the disengagement in relation to the Israeli government's semi-organized anarchy, along with the role of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the defense establishment in the DMP aspect of the disengagement. Ariel Sharon...