* Cuba girds for U.S. invasion (heh)
* So much for surgical airstrikes: 40 die in Israeli attack (Updated: never mind)
* Hypersonics!
* New radars for old birds (background here)
* Reuters fakes Lebanon pics
* Guard hurting
* Uh-oh: hackers clone “secure” passports
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You could have found a better link for that overblown Reuters faked smoke story than Michelle Malkin. My browser nearly puked.
A mixture between terrorist and highly sophisticated guerilla unit, being used to holt territory … does that really surprise?
Are the israeli officers ignorant?
The Tamil Tigers are exactly this kind of force since early 90’s afaik.
Again, lessens to be learned with wide-angle view in the real world and history had to be learned with the blood of young soldiers.
If the IDF was really surprised, it’s just another piece for an argument that the IDF isn’t nearly as professional as its 1967/73 wars established.
Mr. van creveld sees a deterioration of the IDF beginning in 1982 with the first Lebanon invasion…24 years in the past…hey, we do we consider them as a super army at all?
They never won against other foes than Arabs, and their last brilliant ground war successes are 33 years in the past, the last brilliant air operations 20+ years in the past.