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July 10, 2007
Israel Rediscovers Big Wars
The Second Lebanon War continues to gnaw away at the Israeli body politic like a rabid dog. Olmert, like some power-mad monarch, holds on to office even as he remains, by consensus, the most inept Prime Minister since, well, Ehud Barak. And what do you know, Barak is resurrected, folded into the Olmert government, and suddenly Olmert doesn't look so gosh darned disastrous.
Smoke and mirrors.
Anything to fight off the Bibi Netanyahu juggernaut.
But the various operational, strategic, and tactical failures of the IDF in the Second Lebanon War cannot, will not, and should not be ignored. Honest self-criticism is essential to the health and vitality of a nation's military preparedness. Here then is a short but pointed reminder of what happens when a first-class fighting force forgets basic doctrine.
Israel continues to seek lessons from their war last year with Hizbollah, and now there's a government report pointing out that, when the fighting broke out last Summer, Israel had not conducted a large scale military operation since 1982 (when they went into Lebanon to stop terrorist attacks on northern Israel.)
To read the rest of the article, click here to go to Strategy Page.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at July 10, 2007 01:15 PM
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