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Amos Perlmutter Prize Essay

The Israel defense forces in the Second Lebanon War: Why the poor performance?

Avi Kober Department of Political Studies and, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Pages 3-40 | Published online: 05 Jun 2008

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