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The authors would like to express their gratitude to Eyal Ben-Ari, Eran Lerman, Evyatar Matania, Gabi Siboni, Shmuel Sandler, Yaakov Amidror, Hillel Frisch, Uzi Rubin, and Eitan Shamir for their comments on a draft of this article written before October 7, 2023.
1 Evyatar Matanya and Menachem Bacharach, “Strategic Prevention as a Fifth Pillar of Israel’s National Security Concept: A Foundational Document” [Hebrew], Strategic Assessment, XXVI: 1 (February 2023).
2 “IDF Strategy,” Office of Chief of Staff, April 2018, https://www.idf.il/media/3cdhcgro/strategy.pdf.
3 Yitzhak Shamir, Summing Up: An Autobiography [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv, 1996), p. 263.
4 David Levy, “If Katyusha rockets fall, Lebanese soil will go up in flames,” Globes Press Service, February 10, 2000, https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=189366.
5 Winograd Commission, The Committee to Investigate the Events of the Campaign in Lebanon 2006 (Jerusalem, 2008), p. 42, https://web.archive.org/web/20140513195049/http://www.nrg.co.il/images/news/doah.pdf.
6 Ibid., p. 60.
7 Ibid., p. 45.
8 Ibid., p. 47.
9 “Sharon: Restraint is Strength” [Hebrew], Walla! June 3, 2001, https://news.walla.co.il/item/68731.
10 “Ashkelon will not become a front line” [Hebrew], TV7 Israel News, August 31, 2003, https://www.inn.co.il/news/59213.
11 Ilan Marciano, “Olmert: We will fight for the right to a normal life,” Ynet, July 17, 2006, https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3277334,00.html.
12 See discussion of the need for legitimization resources in Moshe Ya'alon, The Longer, Shorter Path [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv, 2008), pp. 141–42.
13 Winograd Commission, op. cit., p. 45.
14 Ibid.
15 Christopher Gelpi, Peter D. Feaver, and Jason Reifler, Paying the Human Costs of War (Princeton, 2009).
16 Rachel Madpis Ben-Dor, “Four Mothers” Leave Lebanon in peace; A story of a protest that prevailed! [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv, 2020).
17 Ya’alon, op. cit., pp. 135–36.
18 Efraim Inbar, “How Israel Bungled the Second Lebanon War,” Middle East Quarterly, XVI:3 (Summer 2007), 61.
19 Efraim Inbar and Eitan Shamir, “Mowing the Grass: Israel's Strategy for Protracted Intractable Conflict,” Journal of Strategic Studies, XXXVII:1 (February 2014).
20 Dudi Kimchi, Kobi Michael, and Limor Regev, “Containment over Decision: Internalizing the Limits of Political Militarization in Israel,” Strategic Assessment, XXIII:4, (October 2020), 16–25.
21 Aviv Kochavi, “The Chief of Staff's Introduction” [Hebrew], Dado Center, August, 2020, https://www.idf.il/%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%96-%D7%93%D7%93%D7%95/%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-28-30-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%A9-%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%94/%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%9B%D7%9C/.
22 Gabi Siboni, Yuval Bazak, and Gal Perl Finkel, “The Development of Security-Military Thinking in the IDF,” Strategic Assessment, XXI:1 (April 2018), 8.
23 Winograd Commission, op. cit., p. 46.
24 See Efraim Inbar, “Israeli Strategic Thinking After 1973,” Journal of Strategic Studies, VI:1 (March 1983).
25 See Morris Janowitz, The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait (Glencoe, 1960), pp. 21–75.
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Efraim Inbar
Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security Program at the Shalem Academic Center.
Menachem Bacharach
Menachem Bacharach is a brigadier general (res.) in the IDF and is presently a doctoral student at Bar-Ilan University.