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Old 04-30-2007, 16:42 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I haven't yet looked at the J.P. or Haraatz today to see the findings and haven't been following it nearly as closely as I should.

Last summer we had a young man fresh from Israeli Armor Basic assigned as a driver to a Merkava III (I believe) from an active force. He sent sporadic posts as they came off the line.

Brigadier, I could be wrong, but I never sensed in the battle that the POG was as great an impediment as the Israeli government. I did sense dismay and some confusion that POG militias would engage in close combat, but there was such a start-stop-start quality to Israeli ops that they never seemed to achieve any momentum.

Too, I was never clear as to whether they were actually conducting a breach with an objective in the operational rear (Litani? Bekaa?), or a breach to envelop the defensive barrier, or whether they were breaching at all!

I will look around for some analysis. I know OoE and myself had a discussion on this matter last fall. I bet he's got a handle on some good source analysis.
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