5 Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 1 Strategic Framework ............................................................................. 9 National Goals ...................................................................................................... 9 Threat Factors ...................................................................................................... 9 Principles of National Security Concept .................................................................. 9 The Relation between National Goals and the Employment of Force .......................11 Chapter 2 The Strategic and Operational Environment .......................................... 13 Characteristics of the International and Strategic Environment ...............................13 Characteristics of the Operational Environment .....................................................14 Additional issues, not the focus of this Document ..................................................15 Chapter 3 The IDF's Use of Force ........................................................................ 17 General Principles for the IDF's Use of Force .........................................................17 The Purpose of Military Action ..............................................................................18 Operations during Emergency and War ................................................................ 20 Limited Campaign .............................................................................................. 21 Principles of the Use of Force in Emergency and War .............................................22 Primary Capabilities and Efforts during Emergency and War ...................................23 Efforts specifications ...........................................................................................24 Use of Force principles during Routine ..................................................................26 Deterrence ..........................................................................................................27 The Operation Between Wars ...............................................................................28 Promoting and Maintaining Legitimacy ..................................................................29 Operations against Countries with no Common Borders .........................................30 Chapter 4 The Command and Control (C&C) Concept and the IDF's Order of Battle 31 The General Command ........................................................................................31 The Chief of the General Staff as the Operational Commander ...............................31