TY  - BOOK
AU  - INBAR Efraim
AU  - SHAMIR Eitan
TI  - Mowing the grass: Israel's strategy for protracted intractable conflict 
PY  - 2014///
KW  - ISRAEL
KW  - COUNTERINSURGENCY
KW  - DETERRENCE
KW  - ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCE
KW  - MILITARY STRATEGY
N2  - Israel's experience of conflict has changed from conventional interstate war to on-going conflict with non-state armed groups. According to this paper Israel does not expect such conflicts to be conclusive but to be a means of containing the threat by a process of attrition with only occasional use of large scale force. This policy differs from most Western approaches to non-state armed groups. The article points out that the policy may outlive its usefulness if the non-state groups develop increasing levels of state like functioning
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2013.830972
ER  -