What Good Is Military Strategy? An Analysis of Strategy and Effectiveness in the First Arab-Israeli War
By: Jeffrey Meiser, Temmo Cramer and Ryan Turner-Brady
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.65 | Journal eISSN: 2596-3856
Language: English
Page range: 37 - 49
Submitted on: Jan 28, 2020
Accepted on: May 7, 2020
Published on: Jan 28, 2021
Published by: Scandinavian Military Studies
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