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32
J. E. Talbott, “The Myth and Reality of the Paratrooper in the Algerian War,”
Armed Forces and Society
3:1 (Fall 1976): 69-86.
33
S. Peres, “Ha-kumta Ha-aduma” [The Red Beret], in S. Peres,
Ha-shalav Ha-ba
[The Next Stage] (Tel Aviv: Am Ha-sefer, 1965), p. 126.
34
The attempts to negotiate with Egypt are described at length in M. Bar On,
Be-shaare Aza: Mediniyut Ha-chuts Ve-habitachon shel Medinat Yisrael, 1955-1957
[At the Gates of Gaza: Israel’s Defense and Foreign Policy, 1955-1957] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1992), chaps. 7 and 8.
35
The most recent full-size account is S. Teveth,
KALABAN
[Shearing Time: KALABAN] (Israel: Ish-Dor, 1992).
36
Cf. Morris,
Milchamot Ha-gevul shel Yisrael
, p. 354 ff., for the details.
37
Ibid., p. 359 ff.
38
Cf. the discussion in Benziman,
Sharon
, pp. 57 ff., 66 ff.
39
Dayan,
Avnei Derech
, p. 148.
40
All figures from Bar On,
Be-shaare Aza,
pp. 30-31.
41
For evidence that Nasser was planning an attack on Israel see M. Oren,
The Origins of the Second Arab-Israeli War
(London: Cass, 1992), p. 137.
42
Including Ben Gurion’s own talk, delivered to senior commanders on January 16, 1955, “Ha-yesh Makom Le-milchemet Mena Neged Mitsrayim?” [Should We Launch a Pre-emptive Attack on Egypt?] in Ben Gurion,
Yichud Ve-yeud
, pp. 218-225.
43
This is the thesis advanced by Morris,
Milchamot Ha-gevul shel Yisrael
, chap. 12.
44
The arguments in favor of
Hagana Merchavit
are summed up in Y. Ber,
Be-maagali Bitachon Yisrael
[Problems of Israeli Security] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1957).
45
Bar On,
Be-shaare Aza
, p. 90 ff.
46
U. Ben Eliezer,
Derech Ha-kavenet: Hivatsruto shel Ha-militarizm Ha-yisraeli, 1936- 1956
[Through the Gunsight: The Emergence of Israeli Militarism, 1936-1956] (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1995), pp. 301-302.
47
Ibid., p. 171.
48
A. Eban to Foreign Ministry, March 29, 1956, Foreign Ministry Papers, State Archive, 5/2455.
49
Additional figures on weapons bought, and the sums paid for them, in Dayan,
Avnei Derech
, pp. 183-184.
50
Figures on the strength of the IAF in Moshe Dayan,
Diary of the Sinai Campaign
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957), p. 209.
51
Ezer Weizman,
On Eagle’s Wings
(Tel Aviv: Steimatzky’s, 1979), p. 135.
52
The most detailed account is M. Bar Zohar,
Suez: Ultra Secret
(Paris: Fayard, 1964); the most recent one, M. Bar On, “David Ben Gurion and the Sevres Collusion,” in W. M. Roger Louis and R. Owen, eds.,
Suez 1956
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 145-160.
53
Y. Serena, “Neshek Tmurat Chisulim” [Arms for Liquidations],
Yediot Acharonot
weekend magazine, October 25, 1996, pp. 13-14, 62.
54
D. Eisenhower to G. Mollet, July 31, 1956, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1955-1957, Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1990, vol. xvi, pp. 77-78, No. 39; D. Eisenhower to A. Eden, September 6, 1956, printed in A. Eden,
Full Circle: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden
(London: Cassell, 1960), pp. 466-467.
55
Bar On,
Be-shaare Aza
, p. 220, based on the diary of the chief of staff’s office for which he himself was responsible.
56
Ibid., pp. 268-269.
57
Dayan,
Diary of the Sinai Campaign
, p. 43.
58
Cf. the details in Y. Steigman,
Me-atsmaut Le-kadesh, Chel Ha-avir Ba-shanim, 1949-1956
[The IAF from the War of Independence to Suez, 1949-1956] (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1990), pp. 155, 173-175.
59
Bar On,
Be-shaare Aza
, pp. 295-296.
60
Steigman,
Me-atsmaut Le-kadesh
, p. 184.
61
See Sharon’s description of the action in
Warrior
, pp. 136-140.
62
Dayan,
Avnei Derech
, pp. 250-251.
63
Dayan,
Diary of the Sinai Campaign
, p. 70.
64
K. Love,
Suez: The Twice Fought War
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), p. 492.
65
M. Gur, “Nisayon Sinai” [The Experience of Sinai],
Maarachot
(October 1966): 17-22. Laskov, reporting to Ben Gurion shortly after the operation, felt as Gur did; M. Naor,
Laskov: Lochem, Adam, Chaver
[Laskov: The Soldier, the Man, the Friend] (Jerusalem: Keter, 1988), p. 263.
66
M. Heichal,
Cutting the Lion’s Tail: Suez Through Egyptian Eyes
(New York: Arbor House, 1987), pp. 177-178.
67
G. W. Gawrych,
Key to the Sinai: The Battles for Abu Ageila in the 1956 and 1967 Arab-Israeli Wars
(Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1990), p. 34.
68
Cf. ibid., p. 25, for the balance of forces as well as the most detailed account of these battles.
69
According to the diary of Egypt’s minister of municipal affairs, Abd al Latif al Bagdadi, quoted in S. I. Troen and M. Shemesh, eds.,
The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956
,
Retroperspective and Reapparaisal
(London: Cass, 1990), p. 339.
70
Dayan,
Diary of the Sinai Campaign
, p. 116.
71
Bar Zohar,
Suez
, p. 196.
72
Cf. the detailed description of the battle in Dayan,
Diary of the Suez Campaign
, p. 128 ff.
73
Cf. Sharon,
Warrior
, p. 146 ff.; B. Amidror, “Ha-mitla: Malkodet Ha-esh” [The Mitla: The Fire Trap],
Ha-olam Ha-zeh
, October 9, 1974, pp. 16-17, 26.
74
Bar Zohar,
Suez
, pp. 193-195.
75
T. N. Dupuy,
Elusive Victory
:
The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974
(New York: Harper and Row, 1978), p. 181.
76
Teveth,
Moshe Dayan
, p. 323.
77
R. Eytan,
Sippur shel Chayal
[A Soldier’s Story] (Tel Aviv: Maariv, 1991), p. 66; Bar Zohar,
Suez
, p. 188 ff. Bar Zohar, incidentally, mistook the French F-84s for F-86s.
78
Steigman,
Me-atsmaut Le-kadesh
, p. 290.
79
Cf. M. van Creveld,
Command in War
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. 196-198.
80
Dayan,
Diary of the Sinai Campaign,
pp. 39-40.
81
Luttwak and Horowitz,
The Israeli Army
, pp. 161-163.
82
The episode is described in Steigman,
Me-atsmaut Le-kadesh
, pp. 281-282.
83
Eytan,
Sippur shel Chayal
, p. 70.
84
Benziman,
Sharon: Lo Otser Be-adom
, pp. 78-79.
85
Teveth,
Moshe Dayan
, p. 315.
86
Peres, “Ha-kumta Ha-aduma,” p. 125.
87
Ba-machane
, October 29, 1957, p. 11.
88
Ha-arets
, November 7, 1956; S. Peres, “The Road to Sevres: Franco-Israeli Strategic Cooperation,” in Troen and Shemesh, eds.,
The Suez-Sinai Crisis
, p. 145.
CHAPTER 10
 
1
Cf. E. Orren, “The Changes in Israel’s Concept of Security After Kadesh,” in S. I. Troen and M. Shemesh, eds.,
The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956, Retroperspective and Reappraisal
(London: Cass, 1990), pp. 218-229.
2
For data on the proportionally very high number of
kibbuts
members among IDF officers, and their quality, see Y. Amir, “Bnei Kibbutsim Be-TSAHAL,”
Megamot
15:2-3 (August 1967): 250-258.
3
A. Oz,
Menucha Nechona
[Perfect Peace] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1981), p. 167.
4
Ezer Weizman,
On Eagle’s Wings
(Tel Aviv: Steimatzky’s, 1979), p. 169.
5
Y. Tsiddon-Chatto,
Ba-yom, B-layil, Ba-arafel
[By Day, by Night, in Fog] (Or Yehuda: Maariv, 1995), pp. 177-178.
6
A. Perlmutter,
Military and Politics in Israel
(London: Cass, 1969), p. 66.
7
E. Gross, “The IDF Education Corps,” in D. Ashkenazy, ed.,
The Military in the Service of Society and Democracy
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 57.
8
Cf. N. Eytan, “The
Hasbara
Branch of the IDF Education Corps,” and D. Novack, “The Cultural Branch of the IDF Education Corps,” in ibid., pp. 65-80.
9
For details on the program see R. Gal,
A Portrait of the Israeli Soldier
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986), p. 54; also M. Bar On, “The Process of Integrating Ethnic Groups in TSAHAL,” offprint, n.p., n.d., the Hebrew University Library, Jerusalem.
10
For a brief English-language account of its activities see J. Larteguy,
The Walls of Israel
(New York: Evans, 1969), pp. 196-201; also V. Azarya, “Israeli Armed Forces,” in M. Janowitz and S. U. Westbroad, eds.,
Civic Education in the Military
(London: Sage, 1989), pp. 115-116.
11
Cf. Z. Drori, “Utopia in Uniform,” in I. Troen and N. Lucas, eds.,
Israel: The First Decade of Independence
(New York: State University of New York, 1995), p. 600 ff.
12
A typical example is M. Lissak,
Military Roles in Modernization: Civil-Military Relations in Thailand and Burma
(Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1976).
13
Cf. L. Laufer,
Israel and the Developing Countries: New Approaches in Cooperation
(New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1967), pp. 30-31, 167-172; M. Kreinin,
Israel and Africa—A Study in Technical Cooperation
(New York: Praeger, 1964).
14
All figures from N. Safran,
From War to War: The Arab-Israeli Confrontation, 1948-1967
(New York: Pegasus, 1969), p. 156 ff.
15
M. Bar Kochva,
Merkevot Ha-plada
[Steel Chariots] (Tel Aviv: Maarachot, 1989), p. 31.
16
A. Brezner,
Nistane Ha-shiryon
[The Origins of the Israeli Armored Corps] (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1995), p. 8.
17
A. Sharon,
Warrior
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), pp. 136-138.
18
Moshe Dayan,
Diary of the Sinai Campaign
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957), p. 61.
19
M. Naor,
Laskov: Lochem, Adam, Chaver
[Laskov: The Soldier, the Man, the Friend] (Jerusalem: Keter, 1988), pp. 248-249.
20
M. Bar On,
Be-shaare Aza: Mediniyut Ha-chuts Ve-habitachon shel Medinat Yisrael, 1955-1957
[At the Gates of Gaza: Israel’s Defense and Foreign Policy, 1955-1957] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1992), p. 222.
21
Naor,
Laskov
, p. 264, quoting interview with Brig. Gen. Meir Zorea, who in 1956 was Laskov’s second in command.
22
M. Dayan,
Avnei Derech
[Memoirs] (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1976), p. 149. The figures were: armored corps: 324 percent increase; air force: 123 percent; navy: 224 percent (mostly spent purchasing two World War II destroyers); ground forces as a whole: 39 percent.
23
A. Kahalani,
A Warrior’s Way
(New York: Shaplovsky, 1994), p. 71.
24
Z. Levkovits, “Ha-vikuach al Ha-ugda Ha-meshuryenet, 1953-1960” [The Debate About the Armored Division, 1953-1960],
Maarachot
329 (June-July 1992): 30-39.
25
Cf. E. N. Luttwak and D. Horowitz,
The Israeli Army
(London: Allen Lane, 1975), p. 186 ff.
26
Cf. R. L. Dinardo, “German Armor Doctrine: Correcting the Myths,”
War in History
3:4 (November 1966): 384-397.
27
Bar Kochva,
Merkevot-Ha-plada
, p. 36.
28
For Tal’s training methods see S. Teveth,
The Tanks of Tammuz
(London: Sphere Books, 1970), p. 66 ff.

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