The IDF and Operation Cast Lead
10.03.2009 at 10:38pm
Posted here with permission of The RUSI Journal – Israel’s Operation Cast Lead and the Gaza Strip Missile Conundrum (August 2009) by Sergio Catignani.
Israel’s assault on Gaza in early 2009, Operation Cast Lead, achieved significant tactical successes and managed to redeem the Israel Defence Forces’ poor performance during the 2006 Lebanon War. This paper examines Israel’s military and public information campaign and why Cast Lead failed to accomplish the government’s two main goals of stopping rocket attacks on Israel and the influx of weapons for resupplying Hamas.
Israel’s Operation Cast Lead and the Gaza Strip Missile Conundrum
