Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas

Reviews / Votes

'Catignani's Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas is a lucid, thorough and comprehensive account which fills a major gap in the existing literature. It will be of immense interest to students of low-intensity conflict and counter-insurgency, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and strategic studies in general. Highly recommended.'Ahron Bregman, Journal of Strategic Studies

'...a useful and well-written survey of the development of military-political relations in Israel, and of the Israeli response to the emergence of low-intensity conflict as a central factor facing Israeli strategists.'Jonathan Spyer, Middle East Journal

'This clearly written, balanced and accessible book sets out to analyse the tactical and operational conduct of the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF) counter-insurgency operations during two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-93) It aims to examine 'whether or not the IDF has been able to adapt its conventional order of battle and conduct of warfare to the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian low intensity conflict (LIC) and achieve some sort of victory over the Palestinian insurgency'.The book also looks at 'what effects both Palestinian Intifadas have had on the combat morale of the IDF' something which the author sees as strongly related to combat efficiency.'Amnon Aran, Political Studies Review