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A Sustainable Strategy: Principles for Updating Israel’s Strategy and Security Concept

8 Jul 2024

The scenario of the Nukhba attack was known ahead of time to the IDF and was even the subject of training by the Gaza Division and other bodies. [...] “Aggressive prevention” was not employed because the famous deterrence worked for both sides.19 As soon as the enemy accumulated a minimal threshold of ability to harass the Israeli rear on the one hand and exact a price from the IDF in the event of an attack on its territory on the other, he found himself enjoying a margin of immunity.20 The deep phenomenon, therefore, is the lack of a decisive a. [...] The indirect approach led to the 12 I A Sustainable Strategy postponement of the confrontation and the worsening of the threat from round to round. [...] The IDF itself came to this official conclusion in the operational concept published in 2020: Despite its technological and resource inferiority, the enemy managed to formulate a military approach that allows it to challenge the State of Israel (...) The IDF needs a concept and military capability that will allow it to dismantle the threatening military system, create conditions at the end of the. [...] (...) Another complementary move is the development and promotion of the defensive component.22 In the face of counter-terrorist scenarios (...) and in the absence of a clear battlefield decision, create a temporary and non-final ending mechanism that stops the violence and establishes a reasonable strategic reality.23 It is necessary – at the strategic level – to try to reduce as much as possible.
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34
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Israel

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