You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli Army Official Says Only Ground Offensive will Defeat Hizbullah
2014-03-27
[AnNahar] Only a full-scale Israeli ground offensive will defeat Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
 in the event of another war similar to the 2006 conflict between them, a high-ranking Israeli army official has said.

"It's clear to the general staff that a ground maneuver is what's needed" to confront the threat of rocket attacks, the official, who was not named, told the Jerusalem Post daily in remarks published on Wednesday.
Seriously? Given they've mapped out so many storage depots and such -- as I recall they donated a beautiful, multicolour 100:1 thing to the UN some years ago -- it sounds like pre-programmed missiles would do a good job of shaping the battlefield. Still, everything must be war gamed, I suppose.
"The enemy is growing powerful" in its ability to rain down rockets and missiles on the Israeli home front, the source said, but it remains challenged by the army's ability to launch a ground offensive.

The Israeli Ground Forces Command embarked on a series of upgrades designed to better prepare the military for a possible ground invasion, the newspaper said.

One change under way involves an upgrade to weapons systems, the daily reported.

"We don't have to get the air force to drop 250kg. bombs on every target. Sometimes a shell going through a structure is enough," it quoted the official as saying.

Ground Forces planners are taking into account an enemy that knows how to strike and "disappear," the official said in reference to Hizbullah.

The party "has many missiles and bombs" to target advancing Israeli armored vehicles," he warned. As a result, Ground Forces planners are aiming to inject units into the depth of Hizbullah's territory in southern Leb.

"For us, that means we must restructure and prepare, and to stay ready for a clash that can occur tomorrow, in a few months, or a few years," he told the Jerusalem Post.

"A ground offensive has to be deadly, defensible, network-based and agile, with advanced firepower adapted to... a changing battlefield," the source said. "It's clear to us that we have to shorten a conflict. A ground maneuver will accomplish that."

"We have to get to the enemy and strike its ability to fire on us. In the end, this creates pressure on it and on Leb, and this is an enemy that understands when it's starting to lose," he added.
Posted by:trailing wife

00:00