Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel: In the Shadow of the Hawk

by Abraham Ben-Zvi

Overview

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel seeks to reconstruct and elucidate the processes behind the decisions made by the Johnson Administration during the years 1965-68 to sell Israel M-48 tanks, A-4 Skyhawk planes and F-4 Phantom planes. This examination is based on a distinction between three factions which competed for influence within Washington's high-policy elite: the traditionalists (whose major representative was Secretary of State Dean Rusk); the pragmatists (whose most outspoken representative was Robert Komer of the National Security Council); and the domestically oriented policymakers (the central decision-maker who quintessentially exemplifies this category being President Johnson). This book is a sequel to: John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel, which examined the first arms deal between the US and Israel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135755737
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/05/2004
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	546 KB

About the Author

Abraham Ben-Zvi is professor in the Department of Political Science; senior research fellow at the Jaffee Center of Strategic Studies; and the head of the Security Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. Professor Ben-Zvi is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles that seek to elucidate various facets of American policy in the Middle East, particularly those pertaining to the formation and dynamics of the American-Israeli alliance. Among his books are: The United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993); Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); and John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel (London: Frank Cass, 2002.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, 1. Introduction, 2. The Road to the M-48A Patton Tank, 3. The Road to the A-4E Skyhawk Fighter-Bomber, 4. Beyond the F-4 Phantom Fighter-Bomber: The Changing Dynamics of the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel, Selected Biography, Index