Probe: IDF top echelons failed at all levels during war

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The upper echelons of the Israel Defense Forces failed at every level during the recent war in Lebanon, Major-General (ret.) Amiram Levine said in a report presented to the general staff in November.

Levine, who was appointed by the IDF to examine the conduct of the northern command during the war, was highly critical in his report. He described serious flaws in the conduct of senior officers and said that Northern Command had failed in its mission of protecting the northern communities.

The meeting in which the report was presented was acrimonious and accompanied with heated exchanges between Levine and other senior officers. Levine said that one of the serious flaws in the conduct of the IDF during the war was its preference to the use of air power over ground forces.

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Levine concluded that the way the IDF was deployed during the war was flawed and that the aims of the war were not achieved. He said that the IDF did not adequately prepare for the possibility that thousands of missiles would be launched against Israel.

Haaretz

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1. Now we know why

the US/Israel didn't invade Iran. It would have been suicide.

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2. If you can't handle Iraq or Lebanon, there is no reason to think

Iran is going to be a cakewalk. The truly worrisome thing is what happens to all those unemployed and well armed "insurgents" when the US finally leaves Iraq? I don't think they are going to resume growing dates.