Ilana Kass
Biographic Data
| ID | 5684941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilana Kass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilana |
| FAMILY NAME | Kass |
| SIGNATURE | KASS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Defense University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Soviet Involvement in the Middle East
Most books ongmate as essays of limited scope or as doctoral dissertations whose findings await a receptive audience. Although this study passed through both these metamorphoses, it owes its birth to a mere coincidence. As a graduate student in the Political Science Department of The Hebrew University and a junior research fellow at the university's Soviet and East European Research Centre, I was responsible for documenting pronouncements relevan…
Rejectionism, reversibility and realism
Is there a linkage between the murder of 29 Palestinian worshipers at prayer in Hebron, the spate of suicide bombings in Israel's heartland, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the 1996 Israeli election results? If so, what are the implications for regional stability? In seeking answers to these questions, this article challenges the popular assumption that the Middle East peace process is irreversible. It calls attention to th…
View from Russia
The Persian gulf war
The Persian Gulf war might already be the most overanalyzed conflict in history. More ink than blood has been spilled before, during, and after the war, with the quest for “lessons‐learned” flourishing into a veritable cottage industry. This essay, therefore, focuses on political and military issues that have been largely eclipsed by the more dazzling aspects of Desert Storm. In doing so, our objective is to provide a clearer perspective on the d…
The U.S.-Soviet Strategic Relationship
The U.S.-Soviet strategic relationship is being transformed by the revolutionary events in Europe—culminating in the end of the Cold War—and by dynamics internal to the Soviet Union. The relationship is, at present, asymmetrical: with the United States at the apex of its global influence and the USSR at its nadir, the superpowers remain equal only in their enduring capability to destroy each other. The future, however, holds more peril than promi…
The Soviet military's transcentury agenda
The Soviet military is in the midst of the most comprehensive transformation in its history. At stake is not only the future shape and makeup of the Armed Forces, but the USSR's future as a competitive superpower. This metamorphosis, rooted in analyses conducted by the General Staff well before Gorbachev's ascendancy, seeks to fundamentally redefine what the Soviet Armed Forces will look like and how they will be prepared to fight through the end…
Gorbachev's strategy
The role of nuclear weapons in the modern theater battlefield
At the very time that perception of some Western analysts is moving toward the view that the Soviets believe war could be kept below the nuclear level, Soviet military writings are emphasizing the essential and integral use of nuclear weapons in theater warfare. While recent in origin, this emerging trend has been internally consistent, has surfaced in a diversity of Soviet media, has received support from high‐level Soviet military officials, an…
The Persian gulf war
The Persian Gulf war might already be the most overanalyzed conflict in history. More ink than blood has been spilled before, during, and after the war, with the quest for “lessons‐learned” flourishing into a veritable cottage industry. This essay, therefore, focuses on political and military issues that have been largely eclipsed by the more dazzling aspects of Desert Storm. In doing so, our objective is to provide a clearer perspective on the d…
The Soviet military's transcentury agenda
The Soviet military is in the midst of the most comprehensive transformation in its history. At stake is not only the future shape and makeup of the Armed Forces, but the USSR's future as a competitive superpower. This metamorphosis, rooted in analyses conducted by the General Staff well before Gorbachev's ascendancy, seeks to fundamentally redefine what the Soviet Armed Forces will look like and how they will be prepared to fight through the end…
Gorbachev's strategy
The role of nuclear weapons in the modern theater battlefield
At the very time that perception of some Western analysts is moving toward the view that the Soviets believe war could be kept below the nuclear level, Soviet military writings are emphasizing the essential and integral use of nuclear weapons in theater warfare. While recent in origin, this emerging trend has been internally consistent, has surfaced in a diversity of Soviet media, has received support from high‐level Soviet military officials, an…
The role of nuclear weapons in the modern theater battlefield
At the very time that perception of some Western analysts is moving toward the view that the Soviets believe war could be kept below the nuclear level, Soviet military writings are emphasizing the essential and integral use of nuclear weapons in theater warfare. While recent in origin, this emerging trend has been internally consistent, has surfaced in a diversity of Soviet media, has received support from high‐level Soviet military officials, an…
Gorbachev's strategy
The Soviet military's transcentury agenda
The Soviet military is in the midst of the most comprehensive transformation in its history. At stake is not only the future shape and makeup of the Armed Forces, but the USSR's future as a competitive superpower. This metamorphosis, rooted in analyses conducted by the General Staff well before Gorbachev's ascendancy, seeks to fundamentally redefine what the Soviet Armed Forces will look like and how they will be prepared to fight through the end…
The U.S.-Soviet Strategic Relationship
The U.S.-Soviet strategic relationship is being transformed by the revolutionary events in Europe—culminating in the end of the Cold War—and by dynamics internal to the Soviet Union. The relationship is, at present, asymmetrical: with the United States at the apex of its global influence and the USSR at its nadir, the superpowers remain equal only in their enduring capability to destroy each other. The future, however, holds more peril than promi…
The Persian gulf war
The Persian Gulf war might already be the most overanalyzed conflict in history. More ink than blood has been spilled before, during, and after the war, with the quest for “lessons‐learned” flourishing into a veritable cottage industry. This essay, therefore, focuses on political and military issues that have been largely eclipsed by the more dazzling aspects of Desert Storm. In doing so, our objective is to provide a clearer perspective on the d…
View from Russia
Rejectionism, reversibility and realism
Is there a linkage between the murder of 29 Palestinian worshipers at prayer in Hebron, the spate of suicide bombings in Israel's heartland, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the 1996 Israeli election results? If so, what are the implications for regional stability? In seeking answers to these questions, this article challenges the popular assumption that the Middle East peace process is irreversible. It calls attention to th…
Soviet Involvement in the Middle East
Most books ongmate as essays of limited scope or as doctoral dissertations whose findings await a receptive audience. Although this study passed through both these metamorphoses, it owes its birth to a mere coincidence. As a graduate student in the Political Science Department of The Hebrew University and a junior research fellow at the university's Soviet and East European Research Centre, I was responsible for documenting pronouncements relevan…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (3 works) · History (3 works)