POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Yael Dayan, Moshe Dayan, David Kimche
23 Sep 2018
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Lecture 9: difficult to reconcile being safe & securing international relations, the attack near lattakia is especially unusual because the port city is located near a russian. Israel puts lot of emphasis on military, defense. In syria, russia & turkey are trying to create demilitarized/deconflicted zones military base (khmeimim air force) home to russian jet planes & an s-400 aerial defense system. Israel trying not to attack russia by accident when bombing in syria, russia doing same. Israel has devoted most of its resources to wars, & far less & apparently insufficient effort to the long inter=war campaign. If you do a lot of counter-insurgency work you lose ability in conventional tactics. Small nations: moshe daya(cid:374) said s(cid:373)all (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a foreig(cid:374) poli(cid:272)y, they ha(cid:448)e a defe(cid:374)se poli(cid:272)y. Dayan"s whole life was about military; was a very important face of the idf from the start of. In small nations everything is about national security.
