Title: Arms transfers to Israel : the strategic logic behind American military assistance /
Authors: Rodman, David.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Military assistance, American Israel.; Arms transfers Israel.; Arms transfers United States; United States Military relations Israel.; Israel Military relations United States.; United States Military policy.
Contents: Introduction: the American-Israeli relationship in historical perspective -- Part I: How the arms relationship emerged -- The Israeli quest for arms: Western Europe and the United States -- Armored breakthrough: the 1965 sale of M-48 Patton tanks to Israel -- One step forward and one step backward: the 1966 sale of A-4 Skyhawk aircraft to Israel and the post-1967 Six-Day War arms embargo -- Air support: the 1968 sale of F-4 Phantom aircraft to Israel -- National interests or domestic politics?: the rationale behind American arms sales to Israel in the 1960s -- Part II. How the arms relationship has operated -- The 1967 Six-Day War: a delayed "green light" for preemption -- The 1969-1970 War of Attrition: restricting Israel's military options -- The 1973 Yom Kippur War: limiting Israel's military victory -- Peacetime arms transfers: the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan administrations -- Conclusion: the costs of an alliance and the benefits of a patron-client relationship.