Description |
1 online resource (145 pages) : color illustrations (digital, PDF file) |
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JCSS memorandum ; no. 64 |
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JCSS memorandum ; no. 64.
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Contents |
Past approaches to power assessment -- The model -- The balance of airpower in the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Sensitivity analysis -- The model applied to regional conflict dyads -- Conclusions |
Summary |
Shmuel Gordon's study provides a model that allows for qualitative aspects of power to be quantified, compared, and integrated with quantitative parameters. The study proposes and then tests the model to examine the balance of power between the Israel Air Force and the combined air forces of an Arab war coalition. The findings show that the IAF enjoys a considerable qualitative advantage in both offensive capabilities and defensive power vis-a-vis such a coalition, notwithstanding its arsenal's numerical inferiority. Its main advantages lie in the high quality of its advanced precision munitions, aircraft, personnel, and doctrine. It has mastered the complex doctrinal concepts needed to integrate various systems and create an efficient, synergetic whole |
Notes |
"The Dr. I.B. Burnett Research Fund for Quantitative Analysis of the Arab Israeli Conflict." |
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 18, 2011) |
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"May 2003." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-145) |
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Israel. Ḥel ha-aṿir.
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SUBJECT |
Israel. Ḥel ha-aṿir. fast (OCoLC)fst00578313 |
Subject |
Air power -- Middle East -- Evaluation
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Air forces.
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Balance of power.
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Arab-Israeli conflict.
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air forces.
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Air forces.
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Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Balance of power.
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Middle East.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Merkaz Yafeh le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim.
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