A Study On American Military Assistance To Israel During The Fourth Middle East War

After World War II,the United States began to conduct large-scale foreign aid on a global scale,mainly in the form of economic aid and military aid.Although Israel is not a formal ally of the United States,its military assistance to Israel has been on an increasing trend since the establishment of the state of Israel.The Fourth Middle East War was an important turning point for the U.S.military assistance to Israel.Not only were the amount large and the type of military weapons relatively advanced by the U.S.at that time.So Israel's position in the United States cannot be underestimated.The Fourth Middle East War was the last major military conflict between the Arab and the Israel.The United States tried to act as an intermediary between the two sides in the war.It was crucial for Israel that America provided military aid to Israel during the Fourth Middle East War.American military aid boosted Israel's morale and helped it won.It also showed to more Arab countries that peace depended on the United States,not the Soviet Union.This was actually a move by the United States to expand its international influence against the Soviet Union in the Middle East.The cold war situation in the1970 s can be understood as the detente between the United States and the Soviet Union.With its own strength declining,the Nixon administration adopted the strategy of detente with the Soviet Union in order to ease the tension with the Soviet Union and curb its global expansion.That is called Nixon Doctrine which is the strategic retrenchment in the United States on a global scale.However,in the fourth Middle East war,the increase of American military assistance to Israel did not reflect the purpose of the United States to shrink its overseas obligationsThis paper takes relevant materials of Foreign Relations of the United States as primary historical data,starting with U.S.military assistance to Israel during the Fourth Middle East War.The research focuses on the increase of American military assistance to Israel in this period.This paper analyzes and discusses the reasons and effects of such actions taken by the United States,and then researches the Middle East strategy of the United States.Main research methods and processes: collect and sort out relevant materials,summarize and analyze the internal relations among various materials,and investigate the Middle East strategy of the United States from the perspective of realism.This paper is divided into three parts.The first part is the introduction,which introduces the topic selection basis,the value of this paper,the data sources,the research methods and the research status of domestic and foreign scholars on issues related to the United States and Israel.The second part is the main body,including three chapters.The first chapter reviews the origin and adjustment process of American military assistance to Israel from 1948 to 1969.The second chapter discusses the fourth Middle East war and the increase of American military aid to Israel.The third chapter analyzes and summarizes the reasons and effects of the fourth Middle East war and the increase of American military aid to Israel,and then discusses the American Middle East strategy and the practice of Nixon Doctrine in the Middle East.The third part is the conclusion,summarizing the change of American military aid to Israel until the Nixon administration and analyzing the development of U.S.-Israel relations.This paper argues that the American military assistance to Israel during the Fourth Middle East War did not reflect Nixon Doctrine.Particularly,instead of pursuing a retrenchment strategy in the Middle East,the United States continued to compete with the Soviet Union in the Middle East.