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Over the last years, missile defense has resurfaced as a major feature of the strategic debate in the United States and among its close allies. As demonstrated during the last clashes between the Israeli Defense Forces and Palestinian factions (2012 and 2014), missile defense is now a pillar of Israel's strategic culture. Understanding this evolution demands an in-depth look at its political, military, and technical ramifications. That is the very purpose of this new monograph by Dr. Jean-Loup Samaan. Based on archival research and numerous interviews with key players in Israel, Dr. Samaan provides us with one of the first comprehensive appraisals of Is-rael's experience in missile defense. U.S. intelligence and defense planners as well as scholars, practitioners, historians, especially military historians, veterans, and lawmakers may be most interested in this text that showcases the history of Israel's missile defense enterprise. International relations, defense manufacturers, military leaders, personnel, and strategists may also be interested in this work. Additionally, students pursuing coursework in military and political science with specialties in foreign policy, and national security intelligence may find this text useful for supplemental reading. Related products: Seize the High Ground: The Army in Space and Missile Defense can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00392-9 Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07429-9 Penetrating the Iron Curtain: Resolving the Missile Gap With Technology (Book and DVD) is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/041-015-00300-3 Schriever Air Force Base: A History in Pictures is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00869-6

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JEAN-LOUP SAMAAN is a researcher for the Middle East Faculty at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense College in Rome, Italy. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Project on Nuclear Issues of the Center for Strategic and International Affairs. His areas of expertise include Middle East strategic balance and Gulf security diplomacies, as well as cyber defense. He was a policy advisor at the French Ministry of Defense from 2008 to 2011, where he was responsible for several net assessment studies covering transatlantic military affairs. While working for the French Ministry of Defense (MoD), he participated in various French-American strategic foresight exercises with the National Intelligence Council as well as with the U.S. Air Force. From 2009 to 2011, he was also an adjunct lecturer in international security at the French Institute for Political Studies, Sciences Program, and gave lectures to civilian and military audiences in various countries. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar at Duke University, and from 2007 to 2008, he was a researcher at the RAND Corporation in Washington, DC. Dr. Samaan has authored three books and several academic articles for various international journals such as Survival, Orbis, Comparative Strategy, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Politique Etrangere, and Internationale Politik. He is a regular columnist for the E-magazine, Al Monitor. Dr. Samaan is a former student of Arabic at the French Institute of Oriental Languages and the French Institute for the Near East in Beirut, Lebanon. He graduated from the Institute for Political Studies in Grenoble, and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Paris La Sorbonne.

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