This article was sent to NCF by Felix Posen
The head of the Israeli armed forces, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, resigned at 12.20 a.m. last night amid ongoing inquiries into last summer’s conflict between Israel and Hizbullah. Israel’s military leadership has been severely criticized for poor planning, poor strategy and poor execution during the war.
In the words of the BBC’s main headline this morning, “Today the chief of the Israeli armed forces paid the price for failing to win the Hizbullah war. The war was a disaster for Israel.”
Many in Israel concur with this assessment, and see the conflict as resulting in a major loss for Israel’s deterrence capabilities, not to mention the grave loss of life and property.
However, Israeli Maj.-Gen. Yaakov Amidror, the former commander of the IDF’s National Defense College and the IDF Staff and Command College, takes a different view.
A report by Amidror, published yesterday (although written last year) and attached below, offers a more upbeat (from an Israeli point of view) assessment of the outcome of last summer’s war with Hizbullah.
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