Israel and Syria the military balance and prospects of war /
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Westport, Conn. : Washington, D.C. :
Praeger Security International ; Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Prospects for peace or war : military developments after the Israeli-Hezbollah War
- Israeli and Syrian alarms and excursions in 2007
- The prospects for war
- Major trends in force strength
- Israeli force quality versus Syrian force quantity
- Looking at a snapshot of total forces
- Comparative manpower quantity and quality
- Comparative land force strength : active versus mobilized strength
- Comparative land force manpower
- Armor and anti-tank weapons
- Artillery weapons
- Anti-aircraft weapons
- Comparative air strength : quality over quantity
- Comparative air force strength
- Air force manpower
- Air force aircraft, weapons, and technology
- Comparative land-based air defense forces
- Comparative naval strength : peripheral missions
- Shifts in the role of seapower
- Naval manpower
- Naval ships, weapons, and technology
- Total resources : recapitalization, force modernization, and impact on effectiveness
- Comparative trends in military expenditures
- Comparative trends in arms imports
- Recent deals : the importance of the US, Russia and Iran
- The military forces of Israel
- Israel's struggle to maintain its conventional "edge"
- Adapting to asymmetric wars
- Seeking to add an asymmetric "edge" to a conventional one
- Adapting to new threats while retaining conventional military strengths
- Trends in manpower and total force strength before the 2006 Lebanon war : active versus reserve forces
- Israeli defense planning after the 2006 Lebanon war
- Israeli land forces
- Israeli air forces
- Israeli land-based air defenses
- Israeli naval forces
- Israel's counterterrorism and internal security forces
- Israeli weapons of mass destruction and missile defenses
- The military forces of Syria
- Syria's long proxy war with Israel
- Internal stability, Alawite rule, and the Shi'ite crescent
- Syria's broader regional issues
- The trends in Syrian forces
- Syrian land forces
- Syrian air and air defense forces
- Syrian land-based air defenses
- Syrian naval forces
- Syrian paramilitary, security, and intelligence forces
- Syrian weapons of mass destruction
- War on the Golan Heights
- The strategic geography of the Golan Heights
- The new dimensions of the strategic geography of the Golan
- The UN peacekeeping force on the Golan
- Israeli positions on the Golan
- Syrian positions near the Golan
- A Syrian surprise attack or "grab for the Golan
- Israeli options against Syria
- Continuing external asymmetric wars
- Israel's "haves" versus Syria's "haves not"
- The possible impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Gaming a future Israeli-Hezbollah conflict?
- The Iranian wild card.