Israeli War Plan Had No Exit Strategy

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 21, 2006

JERUSALEM -- Just two days after Israel launched a punishing counterattack against Hezbollah this summer, Israeli military and diplomatic officials were deeply split over war strategy.

On July 14, as Israeli aircraft prepared to bomb south Beirut, the research unit of Israel's military intelligence branch presented a report to senior Israeli officials that questioned the war plan's ability to achieve the government's goals.

The analysis, according to senior Foreign Ministry officials who read it, concluded that the heavy bombing campaign and small ground offensive then underway would show "diminishing returns" within days. It stated that the plan would neither win the release of the two Israeli soldiers in Hezbollah's hands nor reduce the militia's rocket attacks on Israel to fewer than 100 a day.

Those initial conclusions held true when the war ended 31 days later.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001688.html


Looks like Olmert went to the George W. Bush School of War Planning.

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2. "Why you always make me hit you, baby?!"

[bemildred]

3. Very Bushlike. nt