THE 2006 LEBANON CAMPAIGNAND THE FUTURE OF WARFARE:IMPLICATIONS FOR ARMY AND DEFENSEPOLICYStephen Biddle Jeffrey A. FriedmanSeptember 2008

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank the many individuals

whose comments on previous drafts or briengs haveimproved the nal monograph, and particularly Nir

Artzi, Andrew Exum, Thomas McNaugher, and YuriZhukov. The authors would also like to express theirthanks to Brigadier General Itai Brun of the Israel

Defense Force for his support and assistance in the eld

work on which the research is based; to BG Brun and thestaff of the Dado Center for Interdisciplinary MilitaryStudies of the Israel Defense Force for their thoughtful

and energetic comments on interim project briengs;

and to Mr. Martin Peled-Flax of the Israeli Embassy inWashington, Maj. Dan Fayutkin of the Dado Center,Dima Adamsky of Columbia University, and Lt. MoranMaymon, Private Elena Papageorghiou, and Private

Maureen Shaldag of the IDF Spokesperson’s ofce for

their assistance in arranging interviews and base accessin Israel. Nir Artzi provided critical research assistancein the Hebrew literature on the war, for which theauthors are grateful. Finally, the authors would like to

thank the thirty-six IDF ofcers whose interviews form

the basis of the analysis presented here, and withoutwhose generous contributions of time and cooperationthis research would not have been possible. Any errorsof fact or interpretation, of course, are the responsibilityof the authors.