Military Analysis and History

  BOOKS AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE BOOKS https://books.google.com/ 1.     The Gulf Missile Crisis - https://www.google.ro/books/edition/The_Gulf_Missile_Crisis/e_jBEQAAQBAJ?hl=ro&gbpv=1&dq=The+Gulf+Missile+Crisis&printsec=frontcover   The paper, published in 2018, foresaw certain aspects of the current Gulf conflict. Presentation : The theme of the book is the Al-Hussein ballistic missiles launching operations (Iraqi derivative of the soviet Scud missiles) during the First Gulf War (1991), their consequences and the International Coalition effort to prevent and to combat them.           The book focuses on the following aspects development: -        Al-Hussein ballistic missiles launching operations were ways the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, used to respond against International Coalition Forces, led by USA, that were established to liberate Kuwait; Al-Husse...

  THE MYTH OF ISRAELI INVINCIBILITY. PART VI 1978 – Intervention in Lebanon              In 1973, after the Yom Kippur War, Israel already possessed clear military superiority over its Arab neighbors. The defeat suffered and the heavy losses within the Arab coalition guaranteed this reality. The superiority was reflected in the trump cards it consistently held or had regained: strong US support, highly effective intelligence services, air power, and the tactics of (blitzkrieg). Technological superiority was not yet evident.         Israel’s security was already very solid compared to the 1950s and 1960s. Peace negotiations were underway with Egypt. Jordan no longer posed a problem. Syria remained the only neighboring state enemy, but it was far from having the capacity to launch any military campaign against Israel. Other enemies still existed—namely Iraq and Libya—but they were not in a position to act directly. What remained ...

  THE MYTH OF ISRAELI INVINCIBILITY. PART V 1973 – Yom Kippur War              In 1970, following the War of Attrition, Israel's military superiority over its Arab neighbors had been largely neutralized. Some of the advantages present in the first three armed conflicts (the 1947–1949 Arab-Israeli War, the 1956 Sinai Campaign, and the Six-Day War) were no longer applicable, namely air power, 'blitzkrieg' tactics, and technological superiority. What remained were intelligence superiority and massive external support.        Overall, Israel's security situation had improved. Egypt and Syria remained enemies, but Jordan no longer threatened Israel's borders. Although Jordan was to participate in the war with troops, the eastern border no longer posed problems for the Israeli army, allowing it to concentrate its forces in the northeast and the Sinai. The Suez Canal remained the demarcation line with Egypt, where the ...