Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War By William M. Arkin
Publisher: Air University Press 2007 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 1585661686 | PDF | 4.5 MB
In the summer of 2006, Israel fought an intense 34-day war with Hezbollah, the first sustained modern air campaign conducted by a country other than the United States. As soon as the fighting was under way, many were declaring airpower oversold and inadequate. Commentators clamored for more-decisive ground action, asserting that only ground forces could defeat Hezbollah rocket fire, that the ground alternative would produce a "cleaner" and less tangled outcome, bring about different political realities, reduce civilian casualties and damage, and make greater gains in the battle for hearts and minds…