This book assesses a broad range of strategic ramifications for Israel generated by the Gulf War of 1991. The report analyzes these ramifications from a variety of viewpoints: political, military, economic and societal. The authors focus on the lessons of the war experience for Israel, and suggest possible future policy options that reflect that experience.

Reprint. Originally published: Jerusalem : Jerusalem Post, 1992. Published for the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.

Foreword / Joseph Alpher -- The Gulf War: main political and military developments / Shlomo Gazit ; Part I. Global and inter-Arab implications. Gulf crisis and new world order: the perils of linkage / Aharon Klieman -- The gulf crisis and U.S.-Israel relations / Dore Gold -- The prospects of American pressure on Israel / Abraham Ben-Zvi -- Implications of the gulf crisis on Soviet Middle East policy / Galia Golan -- The Arab world and the gulf crisis / Ephraim Kam ; Part II. Military lessons. The Iraqi threat to Israel following the Gulf War / Zeev Eytan -- The Gulf War: tentative military lessons for Israel / Ariel Levite --Technology in war: preliminary lessons from the Gulf War / Zeev Bonen -- Israeli deterrence and the Gulf War / Shai Feldman -- The Gulf crisis, international terrorism, and implications for Israel / Anat Kurz ; Part III. Arab-Israel peace process. Implications of the war for the Arab-Israel peace process / Joseph Alpher -- The outlook for substantive Syrian-Israeli negotiations / Aryeh Shaliv -- Arms control in the Middle East after the Gulf War / Shai Feldman -- Appendix: Fact sheet on Middle East arms control initiative, Wednesday, May 29,1991 ; Part IV. The Israeli domestic scene. Security and political attitudes: the Gulf War / Asher Arian -- The Israeli home front in the Gulf War / Yehuda Ben Meir -- The Israeli economy and the Gulf Crisis / Yaacov Lifshitz -- Conclusions / Aharon Yariv.