The Strategic Logic of the Campaign Between the Wars

ABSTRACT: Routine security has come to be known as "the campaign between the wars," to define it as Israel contending with its abundance of regular and irregular enemies who wish to undermine the national resilience of the state. The author concludes that Israel's strategy for successfully contending with them includes four complementary elements: deterrence, national resilience, the value of restraint, and the strong Israeli drive to build and be built. Specifically, the author argues the society and government in Israel succeeds in contending with the challenges and the threats because they have come to terms with the fact that they do not see a solution to all of their security problems on the horizon. The fortification of strategic superiority, combined with managing relationships with states in the region and together with the accumulated deterrence of revealed and covert actions—these are the essence of routine security.

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