To Face New and Old Threats to Its Security, Israel Can’t Rely on Air Power Alone
The IDF should stick to its traditions of fighting fast, powerful campaigns that lead to clear, unequivocal achievements.
January 5, 2022
To Face New and Old Threats to Its Security, Israel Can’t Rely on Air Power Alone
The IDF should stick to its traditions of fighting fast, powerful campaigns that lead to clear, unequivocal achievements.
In 2019, Ofer Shelah, then-head of the Knesset’s subcommittee on defense doctrine and military buildup, coauthored a classified report on the state of the IDF’s ground forces, and how resources ought to be distributed in the coming years. Due to political deadlock, many of the key questions of budgeting and allocation of resources—not to mention the strategic questions on which they rest—remain unresolved. Shelah, who no longer holds office, presents here an unclassified version of the report. At issue is the key problem of whether Israel should focus finite resources on the “stand-off” capabilities of air power, missiles, and rockets or instead on tanks, infantry, and other ground forces:
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