Marcel de Goedes perspective on the 2006 war is that of IDFs strategic culture, meaning the ideas, attitudes, traditions, habits of mind and preferred methods of operation that have been developed during its unique historical experience. He lists explanations for IDFs disappointing performance, describes …

Op 12 juli 2006 werd een patrouille van het Israëlische leger in een hinderlaag gelokt door Hezbollah strijders. Een korte strijd volgde, waarbij drie Israëlische soldaten werden gedood en er twee werden ontvoerd. Als reactie voerden de Israel Defence Forces (IDF) operatie Change of Direction uit, een …

The authors take a legal perspective at the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli conflict, but also illustrate the difficulty states armed forces have when facing non-state adversaries. International law (ius ad bellum) and the laws of war (ius in bello) both seem to originate most of all from the history of western, …

In the morning of 12 July 2006 Hezbollah employed missiles, mortars and snipers in southern Lebanon. In a well-coordinated action three Israeli servicemen were killed and two were abducted. As a reaction Israel carried out standard artillery bombardments. An Israeli Defense Force (IDF) unit was ordered …

Decennia lang wordt de veiligheid in het noorden van Israël bedreigd door onder andere beschietingen met Katyusha-raketten vanuit Zuid-Libanon. Vanaf 1982 nam Hezbollah de verzetsstrijd tegen Israël over van de Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). De Libanese regering werd, en wordt, door Israël …

The author compiled what became public of Israels air force activities, raising the question of its effectiveness. Of course, Hezbollah was no match for air superiority, but fired rockets at Israel from an extensive network of tunnels and subterranean bunkers and shelters. In this conflict the added …

Teachers in Europe are educated in a wide variety of institutes and by a wide range of curriculum models. The main aim of teacher education is the same throughout Europe – the education of teachers – but the underlying ideas and the contexts differ, leading to significant differences between teacher education …

In order to prevent conflicts and escalation, the United Nations works with a so called Conflict Management system. With this system, the UN aims to prevent the outbreak of conflicts. Besides, Conflict Management makes is possible to bring permanent peace to a conflict area by addressing root causes …