Your comments were very welcome. Thank you. The young Israeli tanker that I earlier mentioned talked about their battalion being used to run water into rifle platoons that had exhausted themselves.
I'm not prepared to toss the IDF's professionalism from top to bottom under the bus. Mistakes appear to have been made at each level, but it is hardly an indictment of the entire force. It was, though, an unmistakable "shot across the bow" to the IDF, particularly the shoddy preparation that many of the reservists seemed to imply with funding shortages for training, diversion of training time to operational demands in Gaza, and equipment shortages on call-up.
We'll see how matters progress in the next go-around. Druze, I'd love to ask you more but it appears that you may be a tad close to the operational after-action reviews...We'll keep it that way, eh?
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Sir, thank you for the great links. I knew that you'd have a few tucked away!
