Handbook of the Arab-Israeli Crisis

The collections contained within the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library are largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College. The documents in this collection cover the areas on the Vietnam Conflict, Korean War, and the U.S. Civil War, to name a few. This is one of those documents. Volume II of II, this volume serves as an introduction to the study of the Arab-Israeli crisis from the socio-political, historical and military points of view. It takes for its starting point a definition of the crisis as the conflict of two discordant rights locked into two inflexible attitudes. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the evolution of the conflict within the context of mandated Palestine and to demonstrate how the attitudes of the belligerents contributed to the development of military and diplomatic options for crisis management on both the strategic and tactical levels.