Author : Jeffrey A. Friedman
Release : 2011
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 787/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The 2006 Lebanon Campaign and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy by : Jeffrey A. Friedman
Download or read book The 2006 Lebanon Campaign and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy written by Jeffrey A. Friedman. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many now see future warfare as a matter of nonstate actors employing irregular methods against Western states. This expectation has given rise to a range of sweeping proposals for transforming the U.S. military to meet such threats. In this context, Hezbollah's 2006 campaign in southern Lebanon has been receiving increasing attention as a prominent recent example of a nonstate actor fighting a Westernized state. In particular, critics of irregular-warfare transformation often cite the 2006 case as evidence that non-state actors can nevertheless wage conventional warfare in state-like ways. This monograph assesses this claim via a detailed analysis of Hezbollah's military behavior, coupled with deductive inference from observable Hezbollah behavior in the field to findings for their larger strategic intent for the campaign.