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The strategic impasse in low-intensity conflicts: the gap between Israeli counter-insurgency strategy and tactics during the Al-Aqsa Intifada
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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:44 authored by Sergio CatignaniOver the past 15 years Israel has been involved in a bitter counter-insurgency campaign against the Palestinians. Palestinian insurgency, particularly during the current Al-Aqsa Intifada, has posed serious challenges to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Whilst being able to adapt successfully its tactics to Palestinian terror and urban guerrilla warfare in order to reduce the level of Palestinian violence, the IDF has not been able to achieve a battlefield decision or victory. This has been due to the nature of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which ultimately necessitates the provision of a political solution by the Israeli political leadership, which has relied too often on the IDF as a panacea for its own strategic and political indecisiveness vis-à-vis the Palestinian national question.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Journal of Strategic StudiesISSN
0140-2390Publisher
RoutledgeExternal DOI
Issue
1Volume
28Page range
57-75Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
Notes
Reprinted in Ahron Bregman (ed.), Warfare in the Middle East Since 1945 (London: Ashgate, 2008).Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes