On The Israeli National Security Strategy In 21^st Century

The National Security Strategy is also entitled "Grand Strategy", oriented by national interests, composing of the strategy of military and foreign affairs. It is the fundamental of the overall project and policy designed by government to protect and promote its national securityand development. Weather in peacetime or wartime, the government can use of the country's armed forces, political, diplomatic, economic and comprehensive national strength to reach the goal of national security. National security strategy includes three elements: national interests, threat and security means. First of all, Israel should recognize its own national interests. Secondly, Israel should know that they are threatened. Third, Israel should take action against these threats. These are the National Security Strategy of the main content. Israel faces three main threats: The threat of Weapons of mass destruction; Conventional war threat; Low-intensity conflict threat. This thesis is divided into three parts, which focus on the threat to Israel and Israeli security means.With proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, Israeli traditional nuclear deterrence strategy faces challenge. First, due to the reasons for the land and population, Israel vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction; Israeli nuclear second strike capability is still relatively weak and can not be mutually assured destruction. Second, traditional retaliatory nuclear deterrence strategy still has many defects, because of information transmission difficulties; so, the traditional retaliatory nuclear deterrence strategy in the Middle East is hardly to play an important role. With development of missile defense technology, deterrence by denial has become the best choice of Israel.The conventional military balance is still of major importance, and the risk of another conventional war cannot totally be ignored. The details of force quality have become steadily more important and must be analyzed in terms of the ability to fight joint warfare. Syria and Iran and other countries still have huge conventional forces, which make Israel under the conventional threat. In recent years, Hezbollah has a huge arsenal of conventional. It has become a new threat to Israel. Israel has cracked down on Hezbollah in 2006, but it also exposed a number of security issues. Israel should maintain strong conventional deterrence in order to reach an appropriate balance between conventional high-intensity conflict (HIC) and all kinds of low-intensity conflicts (LIC).Low-intensity conflicts is more than a risk, it is an ongoing reality. That began in September 2000, led to the collapse of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and which has gone on ever since .At the same time, the Palestinian side has used terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as its principal form of military action and has shown little ability to control its extremist and terrorist movements. Terrorist attacks caused a large number of civilian deaths. Israel launched a large-scale military action in the fight against terrorism in 2002.Israel still wants far more security than the Palestinians can or willing to provide; and the Palestinians want the return of more territory and other demands that Israel is not willing to provide. Israel's expansion of its security fence and settlements is a subject of major contention. The struggle between Israel and Palestinians has become a "battle of separation" in which Israel seeks to create security, and physical barriers between the two peoples focus the struggle on defeating or penetrating Israel's security barriers. In order to disengagement with the Palestinians , Israel had unilateral withdrawn from Gaza and parts of the West Bank in 2005.So far, Israel has had considerable success in establishing and maintaining such barriers. The control of Abbas and secular Palestinians once exercised over Palestinian politics has become tenuous to the point of vanishing, and the strength of Hamas and other militant movements with violent antipeace elements has grown to the point where Hamas scored a decisive victory in the January 2006 legislative elections. But violence has diminished.