1st Edition

The Lessons Of Modern War Volume I: The Arabisraeli Conflicts, 19731989

By Anthony H Cordesman, Abraham Wagner Copyright 1990

    This volume, the first in a series of three, covers the lessons of the 1973-1989 Arab-Israeli arms race and of the conflicts of 1973 and 1982. It draws on interviews with Arab and Israeli sources and reveals that if truth is the first casualty of war, then history is the first casualty of peace.

    Preface -- Introduction -- The Lessons of the 1973 Arab-Israeli Conflict -- The 1982 War in Lebanon -- Force Shifts and Continuing Struggle: 1982–1989 -- Conclusions -- Sources and Methods

    Biography

    Anthony H Cordesman, Abraham Wagner