{"product_id":"israel-strategic-culture-and-the-conflict-with-hamas","title":"Israel, Strategic Culture and the Conflict with Hamas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of ‘strategic culture’ on Israeli military operations against \u003cem\u003eHamas\u003c\/em\u003e between 1987 and 2014. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has often been argued that Israeli policies and military operations against \u003cem\u003eHamas\u003c\/em\u003e have proven tactically effective, but strategically disastrous, allowing the Islamic Resistance Movement to grow from a small spin-off of the Muslim Brotherhood into a powerful military and political actor in the Palestinian arena. This book argues, contrary to this opinion, that Israel was effective in its struggle against the Islamic Resistance Movement between 1987 and 2014, as the Jewish state ultimately managed to deny the majority of \u003cem\u003eHamas\u003c\/em\u003e' strategic aims and to preserve a position of relative strength. By relying on a synthesis of primary sources, interviews, memoirs, scholarly and professional military studies and information gathered from the media, the study delivers a careful and comprehensive analysis of the conflict. It provides an historical outline of the development of the Israeli ‘strategic culture’ and analyzes its impact on the process of military adaptation during the First \u003cem\u003eIntifada\u003c\/em\u003e, the Oslo Peace Process, the \u003cem\u003eal-Aqsa Intifada\u003c\/em\u003e and the Gaza wars. Finally, the book illuminates how the Israeli strategic culture moulded a distinctive ‘way of war’ that, though marked by successes and failures, ultimately proved effective against \u003cem\u003eHamas\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, Middle Eastern politics, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and security studies in general.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241172193624,"sku":"9781138749962","price":210.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138749962_9110a564-2787-478d-97a7-4e6c774e52b9.jpg?v=1769725817","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/israel-strategic-culture-and-the-conflict-with-hamas","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}