Page 162 - Airpower in 20th Century - Doctrines and Employment

162 airpower in 20 Century doCtrines and employment - national experienCes
tH

army against the Israeli ground forces, the road to all out conflict was short.
The IAF attacked and destroyed the missile system in the Beka’a Valley in a
fast concentrated operation. The Syrian air force intervened in order to defend its
ground forces, and in three days of air-to-air battles, the Syrians lost approximately
90 aircrafts, with no losses to the IAF. 9 more Syrian aircrafts were shot-down by
anti-aircraft units, one of them was MiG25.
The war ended with a total defeat of the Syrian army and the PLO while the IDF
controlled half of the country including the capital Beirut. Throughout the war, the
fighting was limited to Lebanon alone, while the Golan Heights, which formed a
direct border between Israel and Syria, remained totally silent.

b. “The Second Lebanon War” (2006)
The result of the First Lebanon War (1982) was the removal of the PLO with
there leader Yasser Arafat from Lebanon, leading to the rise of a new terror force –

The destruction of the Iraqi nuclear reactor that had been hit by the IAF in 1981.