Lyndon B. Johnson and the politics of arms sales to Israel

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"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."--Jacket.

subjects: American Military assistance,  Arms transfers,  Foreign relations,  Military assistance, American,  Military relations,  Johnson, lyndon b. (lyndon baines), 1908-1973,  United states, military relations, israel,  Israel, military relations,  United states, foreign relations,  TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING,  Military Science,  HISTORY,  Military,  Other,  Diplomatic relations

People: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

Places: Israel,  United States

Times: 1963-1969