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I just don't know. What I do know is that civilian leadership emphasized the missile threat at the start of the hostilities and that it switched to tunnels later.
I do know that while the rocket fire was harassing, the threat from the tunnels actually took Israeli lives. Additionally I read a story where they had to get people from their Engineer school house to actually deal with the threat instead of having people in units that were capable of handling it out in the respective units.
Intel didn't reach the man at the sharp end of the spear....not talking about the Special Ops units, but the Infantry and Armor battalions that were hooking and jabbin with HAMAS.
This is a troubling story. But if true it just means that the IDF has more in common with the US military than even I imagined.
The spy services discovered dozens of fresh tunnels last year, and their reports “were disseminated to the prime minister, defense minister and the heads of the security services,” Harel writes. “Thus when the war began, the army knew with relative accuracy where all the tunnels were located.”Read the entire article.
But here lies one of the Military Directorate’s main beefs with the government, according to Haaretz. The government was aware of the tunnels, but never bothered to prepare.
In July, as the conflict spiraled into a series of mutual escalations after the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank, and as the Israeli government rationalized the tunnel threat after the conflict had already escalated, it sent IDF troops into an ill-fated operation they hadn’t planned, trained or equipped for.
Israeli troops stayed in Gaza for weeks, vulnerable to Hamas ambushes despite statements from Israeli officials that destroying the tunnels would take “days,” as Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon said on July 20.
The death toll continued to rise to the worst loss of Israeli life since the 2006 war with Hezbollah. “In the end, the IDF had to get help from civilian companies, and the tunnels were mainly destroyed via a series of improvisations,” Harel notes.
I just don't know. What I do know is that civilian leadership emphasized the missile threat at the start of the hostilities and that it switched to tunnels later.
I do know that while the rocket fire was harassing, the threat from the tunnels actually took Israeli lives. Additionally I read a story where they had to get people from their Engineer school house to actually deal with the threat instead of having people in units that were capable of handling it out in the respective units.
Intel didn't reach the man at the sharp end of the spear....not talking about the Special Ops units, but the Infantry and Armor battalions that were hooking and jabbin with HAMAS.
This is a troubling story. But if true it just means that the IDF has more in common with the US military than even I imagined.
