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November 4, 2019

Only Decisive Action on the Ground, Not Precision Firepower from Afar, Can Defeat Israel’s Enemies

How the IDF lost sight of its winning doctrine.

In its conflicts fought in the past two decades with Hamas in Gaza and Hizballah in Lebanon, the IDF has a used a strategy based on the combination of precision weapons with detailed intelligence. David M. Weinberg, basing himself on a recent, extensive report, argues that this doctrine has proved to be a failure, and calls for a return to the military principles that served the Jewish state so well in the first three decades of its existence:

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