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Transforming Command

The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies

By: Eitan Shamir

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Transforming Command

The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies

By: Eitan Shamir

The book tells the story of the theory and history of the mission command approach (decentralized command) and the attempts by different armies to adopt and reform according to this approach.

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0804772037

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Transforming Command

The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies

By: Eitan Shamir

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Transforming Command

The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies

By: Eitan Shamir

“Examines and analyzes the organizational culture of three armies, those of the United States, Britain, and Israel . . . [an] impressive work.” —H-War On today’s complex, fragmented, fast-moving battlefield, where combatants adapt constantly to exploit one another’s weaknesses, there is a demonstrable requirement for military commanders to devolve a high level of autonomy of decision-making and action to leaders on the ground. An effective model for doing this has existed for some time in the form of mission command and has been utilized by the US, Israeli, and British armies—but with mixed success. This book examines in depth the experiences of the armed forces of each of these countries in implementing mission command, and reveals the key factors that have determined the success or failure of the implementation—factors such as the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), the spread of low-intensity conflicts and operations other than war, and differences in how military cultures interpret, articulate, and exercise the command function. With a foreword by H.R. McMaster, Transforming Command has significant implications for both the development of military doctrine and the training and education of tomorrow’s military leaders. “Very well written . . . uses [a] rich array of data and analytical tools to chart out and explain the different trajectories that mission command took in the three countries.” —Armed Forces & Society

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Stanford University Press

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0804777705

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9780804777704

The Art of Military Innovation

Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

By: Edward N. Luttwak,Eitan Shamir

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The Art of Military Innovation

Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

By: Edward N. Luttwak,Eitan Shamir

Why is Israel's relatively small and low-budget military also the world's most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward Luttwak and Eitan Shamir look to the IDF's unique structure: integrating army, air force, and navy in one service, under an officer class constantly refreshed by short tenures, the IDF is built for agility and change.

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Harvard University Press

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0674660056

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9780674660052

Capturing Eichmann

The Memoirs of a Mossad Spymaster

By: Rafi Eitan,Anshel Pfeffer

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Capturing Eichmann

The Memoirs of a Mossad Spymaster

By: Rafi Eitan,Anshel Pfeffer

**Argentina, 1960. A car speeds through the streets of Buenos Aires. Inside are four Israeli secret agents and their prisoner: one of the most notorious war criminals of Nazi Germany. The Mossad operatives need to get this man, Adolf Eichmann, back to Israel to be tried for his crimes. Holding Eichmann’s head in his lap is the leader of this ambitious mission, Rafi Eitan, whom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later described as ‘one of the heroes of Israeli intelligence’.** In this fast-paced and detailed memoir, Rafi Eitan tells the story of his remarkable life and career as an elite soldier and spymaster. He describes how as a teenager, he smuggled Jewish refugees into Palestine as part of the Palmach unit and how, as a spy in the newly established Mossad, he swam through sewers to blow up a British radar station, earning the name ‘Rafi the Stinker’. He goes on to describe in detail his involvement in the extraordinary hunt for the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Eitan's espionage career eventually ended over his involvement in the controversial Jonathan Pollard espionage affair, which sparked intense debate over Israel’s relations with the US. Packed with new insights into Eitan's role at the heart of Israeli military and intelligence organisations, this is a gripping read and essential reading for anyone interested in espionage history and the daring operation to capture Adolf Eichmann.

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Greenhill Books

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1784387606

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9781784387600

Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada

Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics

By: Eitan Alimi

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Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada

Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics

By: Eitan Alimi

As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987 and 1992. In particular the book discusses how the Palestinians learned about their occupier and how knowledge of Israeli political divisions were used, as well as exploring the various ways in which oppression led to shared grievances and discontent, and the development of organizations to maintain the Intifada. It has received an award by the Israeli Political Science Association for the best book on Israeli politics in English.

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Routledge

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1134171811

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The Art of Military Innovation

Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

By: Edward N. Luttwak,Eitan Shamir

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Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces

By: Edward N. Luttwak,Eitan Shamir

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Harvard University Press

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A Soldier's Story

The Life and Times of an Israeli War Hero

By: Raful Eitan

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A Soldier's Story

The Life and Times of an Israeli War Hero

By: Raful Eitan

This autobiography of one of Israel's most controversial military and political leaders offers an insider's view of Israel's military strategies and includes vivid descriptions of their most dramatic and historical battles. "Battle-scarred, he (Eitan) is living testimony to Israel's struggle for survival".--Yitzhak Rabin, former Defense Minister & Prime Minister of Israel. Photographs.

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SP Books

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1561710946

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From Jerusalem to Beverly Hills

Memoir of a Palestinian Jew

By: Eitan Gonen

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From Jerusalem to Beverly Hills

Memoir of a Palestinian Jew

By: Eitan Gonen

This is a riveting story of the authors journey for survival as a war refugee and overcoming poverty. The story begins in Jerusalem as the British Empire crumbles and World War II ends. The ensuing turmoil in Palestine lead to Israels War of Independence and the Arab siege of Jerusalem that shaped Eitans childhood and the journey he travelled as a construction laborer, shepherd in a kibbutz, Top Gun fighter pilot in Israel Air Force, engineer for the Space Shuttle and a businessman in Beverly Hills. On his quest for independence and justice he endured family displacement, hunger, personal loss, and a government corruption scandal that nearly unraveled all he had worked to create. This compelling story, however, is ultimately one of triumph. Jerusalem, at once provincial and cosmopolitan, where lives of Christians, Jews and Arabs intermingle, is the colorful ground for a true story of a boy growing up during the tumultuous waning years of the British rule. The author describes scenes from the Arab-Israeli war, from a rare vantage point of a little boy, turned refugee in the ravaged city. As a teenager, he becomes a member of a socialist youth movement and joins his friends to establish a kibbutz. Toiling as a shepherd in the hills of Judea, and disappointed by the communal system, he leaves to join the Israel Air Force and becomes a fighter pilot. At the age of 22, he takes Dina, his wife, to Africa to create the newly independent Ghana Air Force. Fulfilling his lifelong dream, the author goes to America, but tragedy drives his young family back to Israel for eleven years. Following the Yom Kippur War, his keen sense of justice compels him to expose government corruption that inevitably teaches him that no good deed goes unpunished, but at the end of the day makes him victorious. A memorable scene aboard an El Al flight provides an emotional end. Visit jerusalemtobeverlyhills.com

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1452092958

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The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917

Palestine and the Question of Orientalism

By: Eitan Bar-Yosef

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The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917

Palestine and the Question of Orientalism

By: Eitan Bar-Yosef

The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem in the Middle East? The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 offers a new cultural history of the English fascination with Palestine in the long nineteenth century, from Napoleon's failed Mediterranean campaign of 1799, which marked a new era in the British involvement in the land, to Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem in 1917. Bar-Yosef argues that the Protestant tradition of internalizing Biblical vocabulary - 'Promised Land', 'Chosen People', 'Jerusalem' - and applying it to different, often contesting, visions of England and Englishness evoked a unique sense of ambivalence towards the imperial desire to possess the Holy Land. Popular religious culture, in other words, was crucial to the construction of the orientalist discourse: so crucial, in fact, that metaphorical appropriations of the 'Holy Land' played a much more dominant role in the English cultural imagination than the actual Holy Land itself. As it traces the diversity of 'Holy Lands' in the Victorian cultural landscape - literal and metaphorical, secular and sacred, radical and patriotic, visual and textual - this study joins the ongoing debate about the dissemination of imperial ideology. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from Sunday-school textbooks and popular exhibitions to penny magazines and soldiers' diaries, the book demonstrates how the Orientalist discourse functions - or, to be more precise, malfunctions - in those popular cultural spheres that are so markedly absent from Edward Said's work: it is only by exploring sources that go beyond the highbrow, the academic, or the official, that we can begin to grasp the limited currency of the orientalist discourse in the metropolitan centre, and the different meanings it could hold for different social groups. As such, The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 provides a significant contribution to both postcolonial studies and English social history.

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Clarendon Press

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0191555576

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Capturing Eichmann

The Memoirs of a Mossad Spymaster

By: Rafi Eitan,Anshel Pfeffer

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The Memoirs of a Mossad Spymaster

By: Rafi Eitan,Anshel Pfeffer

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Greenhill Books

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1784387584

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Transforming Command

Transforming Command

Transforming Command

Transforming Command

The Art of Military Innovation

The Art of Military Innovation

Capturing Eichmann

Capturing Eichmann

Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada

Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada

The Art of Military Innovation

The Art of Military Innovation

A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story

From Jerusalem to Beverly Hills

From Jerusalem to Beverly Hills

The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917

The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917

Capturing Eichmann

Capturing Eichmann

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