ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a review on US-Israeli military ties that compensates for both faults. After scouring the not very large international market for such goods, the choice eventually fell on the American Hawk missile, which had entered US Army service in 1959. The eve of the Sinai campaign, France had become the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF's) principal source of armor and aircraft, a situation that necessarily brought increasing numbers of IDF officers into contact with French ideas of how to best use these armaments. The Winograd Commission, for instance, spread blame widely, citing false economics, mismanaged organizational reform, a misplaced trust in air power, and perhaps above all. A tendency on the part of field commanders to frame their orders in accordance with the intricate jargon associated with the American notion of "effects-based operations" rather than in plain speech intelligible to their subordinates.
