Posted in Counterinsurgency, Harvey Sicherman, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians on Feb 5th, 2008 Comments Off on Civilians: shields and targets
From Harvey Sicherman The Winograd Report has confirmed what I heard on a trip to Israel in August 2006, namely, that an inexperienced Israeli cabinet sought the rewards of a combined arms (air-ground) operation at the risk of an air raid. When this proved inadequate to the rhetoric of victory, the same group bungled the […]
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From Andrew Exum Today, as Eliyahu Winograd presented his final report in Jerusalem on Israel’s performance during the 2006 war with Hezbollah, I sat in London, having coffee with one of the U.S. Army’s smartest counterinsurgency experts. The two of us were discussing what lessons we, as American military professionals and analysts, should draw from […]
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Posted in Andrew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Military on Jan 8th, 2008 Comments Off on Learning from Israel’s mistakes
From Andrew Exum If there is but one article readers of this blog should take the time to read in the next few days, it is most certainly Matt Matthews’s interview with Israeli general Shimon Naveh on the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Since I wrote my study of Hezbollah’s performance during the 2006 […]
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Posted in Andrew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon on Dec 22nd, 2007 Comments Off on Learning from Hezbollah
From Andrew Exum A few weeks ago, I stood in front of a roomful of U.S. Marine Corps officers at Quantico and spoke at length about Hezbollah, the Shia militant group whose military successes against Israel have alternately inspired the Arab public and frightened the ruling Sunni regimes of the Arab world. The Marine Corps […]
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