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JSOFSEA Operation Assignment

A starter guide to unclassifed, open source articles and books related to SOF operations

Articles

Research Starter: Israeli raid on Entebbe
Source- Salem Press Encyclopedia

Use of force for the protection of nationals abroad: The Entebbe incident
Source- Case Western Reserve Journals of International Law

The decision to raid Entebbe: Decision analysis applied to crisis behavior
Source- The Journal of Conflict Resolution

The Entebbe Hostages Crisis
Netherlands International Law Review

*This article can be requested through interlibrary loan*

Intervention against terrorism: Ten years after Entebbe
Source- Cambridge Review of International Affairs

*This article can be requested through interlibrary loan*

Dissertations & Theses

The politics of the Israeli rescue operation at Entebbe: Crisis resolution between state and terrorist organizations

The roles of decision makers in special opertions
NPS Thesis

Books & eBooks

Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice
Call Number: U262 .M37 1996
ISBN: 9780307547231

*Chapter 9, Operation Jonathan: The Israeli Raid on Entebbe, 4 July 1976

* Also available as an eBook

From Troy to Entebbe by John Arquilla
Call Number: U262 .F76 1996
ISBN: 9780761801856

*Chapter 10, The Ultimate Rescue

Invisible Armies by Max Boot
Call Number: U240 .B656 2012
ISBN: 9780871404244

* See pages 451-456 (and index for additional entries)

Operation Thunderbolt by Saul David
Call Number: DS119.7 .D2977 2015
ISBN: 9780316245418

* Also available as an eBook

Special Operations and Strategy by James D. Kiras
Call Number: U262 .K58 2006
ISBN: 9780415702126

*See index for Operation Jonathan (Entebbe raid, 1979)

* Also available as an eBook

90 minutes at Entebbe by William Stevenson; Uri Dan (As told to)
Call Number: DS119.7 .S69 2015
ISBN: 9781510734388

* Also available as an eBook

Secret soldiers: Special Forces in the war against terrorism by Peter Harclerode
Call Number: HV6431 .H363 2001
ISBN: 9780304363797

Yoni's last battle: the rescue at Entebbe, 1976 by Iddo Netanyahu; Yoram Hazoni (Translator)
Call Number: DS119.7 .N4413 2002
ISBN: 9789652292834
Publication Date: 2001-10-01

The letters of Jonathan Netanyahu : the commander of the Entebbe rescue force
Call Number: U55.N46 A4 2013
ISBN: 9789652296290

Further Research...

Expand your research, beyond the sources included in this guide and your own independent database searches, by searching military sites:

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Repository for defense research and a main source for locating military theses.

Calhoun
The institutional repository for the Naval Postgraduate School, also an excellent source for military theses.

Joint Electronic Library (JEL)
Archive for joint doctrine and publications.