I wrote in July 2006, when the Israel-Lebanon war still raged, that it was becoming apparent that Israel's war against Hezbollah was a spasm, not a strategy. Now former Israeli army officer and blogger Yoni Tidi analyzes Israel's Winograd Report thus:
This is it in a nut shell, the real problem.Yoni also points out that Israeli intelligence says that,
No consideration by either the political or the top leadership of the IDF as to if a 60 hour ground war could contribute anything meaningful to the goals of the military operations. In short Olmert, Peretz and Halutz just put our kids at risk with no plan or thought as to what they were doing.
... high quality weaponry, including anti-aircraft missiles, rockets, and anti-tank missiles, was smuggled into Gaza through breached border with Egypt.Not coincidentally, Israelis have been told to prepare 'rocket rooms' for war.
Considerable amounts of high quality weaponry were smuggled into Gaza through the breached border with Egypt along the Philadelphi rout, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin stated during a cabinet security briefing Sunday.
Retired senior officers told Israelis on Saturday to prepare "rocket rooms" as protection against a rain of missiles expected to be fired at the Jewish state in any future conflict.
Speaking on radio as part of a military propaganda offensive, retired general Udi Shani said: "The next war will see a massive use of ballistic weapons against the whole of Israeli territory."
Posts
1 comment:
Thr frustrating thing is, there are now sensors and weapons that can defeat these threats. The only problem is, they're too expensive, either because the range is too short (Phalanx), or because the per-round costs are too high (Arrow).
It seems to me that there's a way out--solid state or fiber laser cannons with 10-20km range and enough power to cook off or otherwise ruin a rocket's day as it approaches the border for pennies on the shot. But, I don't know where development is on these lately--there were several stories in recent years about how power levels were growing rapidly in the lab, and one test with a really small laser that cooked off a mortar shell at rest, but nothing since then.
Post a Comment