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Adventure American Military

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Download 9 times Source: www.sas.upenn.edu // Topic: Adventure American Military File Size: 537.55 kb // Total of Page: 109 Page(s) Last download by snipergun Last download on: 2 months ago Share this info: Sample of page (click to enlarge) Short Desciption: [2nd Draft ? December 2004]. Introduction. Israel also seems to be a perfect illustration of how democracy helps states wisely select ... Content Inside: Chapter 4: Democracy and Israels Military Effectiveness [2nd Draft December 2004] Introduction Israel also seems to be a perfect illustration of how democracy helps states wisely select and effectively prosecute wars. Clearly anticipating later triumphalist arguments, Israeli leaders boasted of the military virtues of their open political system. For example, Yigal Allon, the Commander of the Palmach, maintained that the fact that Israel was a democracy gave it a number of wartime advantages over the Arabs: To be a political and social democracy in the midst of backwards, patriarchal, autocratic or dictatorial regimes was by itself an advantage. The political history of the Middle East has shown that a genuine democracy such as Israels could command the loyalty of its citizens as the regimes of the Arab countries had never been able to do. It guaranteed (to begin with) their fullest mobilization, both physical and moral, in times of national