Returning to the origins of modern Middle Eastern warfare, we trace how British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine opened the door to civil war and then a regional invasion in May 1948. We follow the ...
This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 40. Following Israel's Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's first formal order was to ...
A dramatic Cold War moment saw US President Harry Truman halt Britain's planned bombing of Tel Aviv in 1949, preventing a ...
The motivating force of the war focuses on five generations of Palestinian-Arab refugees that have been indoctrinated with ...