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History/Military Троя и троянцы. Боги и герои города-призрака
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History/Military The Heinkel He 162 (Profile Publications Number 203)
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History/Military Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Repost)
History/Military Demography and Roman Society (Ancient Society and History)
History/Military Reducing Poverty Through Growth And Social Policy Reform in Russia (Directions in Development)
History/Military Screening Politics; The Politician in American Movies, 1931-2001
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History/Military Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War
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More Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War By William M. Arkin In the summer of 2006, Israel fought an intense 34-day war with Hezbollah, the first sustained modern air campaign conducted by a country other than the United States. As soon as the fighting was under way, many were declaring airpower oversold and inadequate. Commentators clamored for more-decisive ground action, asserting that only ground forces could defeat Hezbollah rocket fire, that the ground alternative would produce a "cleaner" and less tangled outcome, bring about different political realities, reduce civilian casualties and damage, and make greater gains in the battle for hearts and minds. When the Israeli government itself expressed its frustration with airpower and escalated ground fighting in the second week of the campaign, airpower critics felt vindicated. The antiairpower view could not help but further echo with all of the stark images of Beirut, the cavalcade of statistics of civilian deaths and destruction, and the departure of the chief of staff of the IDF just 6 months after the initial Hezbollah incursion across the Israeli border. What is more, despite all of the claimed Israeli military accomplishments, Hezbollah was declared as strong as ever. The war has thus been labeled a failure by many, and many of the war's ills are blamed on airpower. It is precisely because the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war was not fought by the United States, because it was an intense and technologically complex irregular conflict fought between a nation-state and a terrorist organization, and because it involved difficult questions of civilian protection and modern information warfare that the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. military should examine it closely. This study is weakened by the fact that Israel was extremely sparse in divulging details of either its air campaign or its ground activity. Hezbollah was even more secretive. The author was therefore consigned to the empirical task of divining Israeli and Hezbollah intent through examining destruction on the ground. Contents Chapter Page DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . xi INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii 1 Escalation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Hezbollah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 The War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4 By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5 Civilian Damage in Lebanon . . . . . . . . . 75 6 Targeting for Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 7 Perfect Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 8 Airpower against Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . 145 Appendix A Israeli Order of Battle and Dramatis Personae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 B Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 C Lebanon Gazetteer and Target List . . . . . . . 243 ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 v Illustrations Figure Page 1.1 Southern Lebanon (map) . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Beirut International Airport (map) . . . . . . . 11 1.3 12–13 July strikes in Lebanon (map) . . . . . . 17 2.1 Hezbollah leadership and command in Haret Hreik, Beirut (map). . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.2 Hezbollah surface-to-surface rockets . . . . . . 32 3.1 Hezbollah rocket fire (graph) . . . . . . . . . . 46 3.2 IDF ground positions as of the cease-fire (map) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 4.1 Distribution of Hezbollah rocket fire by range (graph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4.2 Distribution of Hezbollah rocket fire by origin in Lebanon (map) . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.3 Comparison of weapons expended by the United States and Israel in Iraq and Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.4 Submunition fire against Hezbollah targets (map) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4.5 Israeli attacks on Hezbollah and Lebanese targets (map) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.1 Summary of claimed Lebanese civilian damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 5.2 Beirut (map) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 5.3 Damage to housing and structures in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley . . . . 82 vi CONTENTS Figure Page 5.4 Town and village damage in southern Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 5.5 Distribution of Lebanese “civilian” deaths, by day (graph) . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 5.6 Hezbollah rocket launches from in and around towns and villages in southern Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 5.7 Hezbollah rocket fire from the vicinity of Qana (map). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6.1 Bridges attacked in Lebanon (map) . . . . . . 117 vii ************************************** ************************************** NO RAPIDSHARE = NO DOWNLOAD!!! ************************************** **************************************
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