ROCKET WAR RAISES QUESTIONS OF ISRAEL MILITARY

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Just a teaser, but interesting. The IDF has been drinking Dumbsfeld's bombing and special forces KoolAid. Halutz is one of the central morons in this, and should not be forgotten when the bill comes due.

TEL AVIV -- Only a month ago, Lt. Col. Itay Brun explained the concept of Israel's military. The concept envisioned an army based largely on special operations units and backed by air power.

As Brun described it, most of Israel's operations would be conducted from the air. Fighter-jets would destroy guerrilla strongholds, helicopters would pick off enemy combatants while unmanned aerial vehicles would select and track targets. Most of the tactics would also be used in a conventional war.

"The next challenge is to win the war against terrorism and guerrillas from the air," Brun, adviser to Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, told a military conference.

Today, the notion of Israeli air power as a panacea has been shattered. Halutz and his advisers have been stunned by the failure of Israel's air war against Hizbullah, which has shrugged massive air bombings on its headquarters in Beirut to maintain the rocket war against the Jewish state.

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1. Is the insurgency in its final throes?