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"This is the IDF’s Plan Unfolding"
By Maj P
Here's an article sent to me earlier today from The American Thinker, which I couldn't post because I was having IT issues. It's called "Hezbollah's Iwo Jima Delusion."
The gist is that although Hezbollah is proving a tough nut to crack after having prepped its ground for six years or more, that the IDF is smarter than its being given credit for. They have a plan, and they are executing that plan.
Here are three salient paragraphs:
"It is Hezbollah that has been outsmarted here, though uninformed, mainstream reporting of the initial results obscure this fact. For in banking on a massive Israeli offensive, Hezbollah apparently posted a sizeable force in the Lebanese border towns that are being picked apart one by one by the IDF. Already there are IDF reports of as many as 230 Hezbollah terrorists killed in Maroun al-Ras and Bint Jbeil. The Bint Jbeil meat-grinder, where Hezbollah appeared determined to make an ill-advised last stand, has done its work."The IDF and the Israeli Air Force (IAF) have destroyed an estimated 1,300 Hezbollah missiles that range from the Katyushas to Farj-3s, Farj5s, and Zelzal-2s. Meanwhile, Hezbollah has expended an estimated 2,000 missiles and has little to show for it. Israeli military officials report soldiers have found and destroyed Katyusha rocket launchers, antitank missile launchers and large caches of ammunition. Few launchers are reported available. Like the Japanese at Iwo Jima, Hezbollah has stored enormous quantities of ammunition in the Lebanese border towns, perhaps planning to wage a hit-and-run guerrilla war on Israel’s supply convoys as the IDF repeats the 1982 invasion. But Israel’s been there, done that, and she is not going to make the same mistake twice. “‘This battle against Hezbollah is going to last,’ Avi Dichter, Israel’s public security minister” informed reporters. “‘We’re not in any hurry.’”
"Over whatever time remains before the conflict is forced to end, the IDF will take apart the Hezbollah terrorist-guerrillas that made the ultimate error of remaining in fixed positions. It is Hezbollah that is stoked in the passions and delusions of over-confidence. If Hezbollah takes comfort from fighting in fixed positions, they need only brush up on Napoleon, who said “the army that remains in its forts is beaten.” Or perhaps read up on how General Kuribayashi Tadamichi’s Japanese force of 21,000 at Iwo Jima was reduced by the United States Marines to just over 120 POWs (an additional 900 wounded were captured)."
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MarkD said You don't win wars by holding back.
Well said Mark.
Likewise, we can't win wars with "proportional response".
Excellent post Maj.P.
A very good synopsis of what is "really" happeing in Lebanon right now.
Thanks,
Maj.L.
So, MarkD, spell it out. You want Teheran to be nuked? By whom, and for what?
This is very poor analysis of the current conflict in Lebanon. I'll need to blog on this rubbage...
A Desperate Israel Prepares To Destroy Lebanon
This is truly sickening.
Excerpt:
The Israel Defense Forces plan to ramp up their offensive in Lebanon in response to Sunday's rocket attacks on northern Israel, which killed three civilians in Haifa and 12 reservists near Kfar Giladi.
A senior General Staff officer told Haaretz that for the first time since the fighting began, Israel plans to attack strategic infrastructure targets and symbols of the Lebanese government.
Other than bombing the Beirut airport to prevent arms transfers to Hezbollah, Israel has hitherto not targeted Lebanon's infrastructure, insisting that it is only at war with Hezbollah, not with the Lebanese government or people.
However, the officer said, "we are now in a process of renewed escalation. We will continue hitting everything that moves in Hezbollah - but we will also hit strategic civilian infrastructure."
May God have mercy on their souls if they do this.
Excerpts from the American Thinker - OpFor is better than that.
WW,
I did NOT say I wanted Tehran nuked. When they have nukes, and the means to deliver them, well let's just say I'm glad I don't live anywhere near Washington, DC.
A conventional attack on all their nuke sites the day the deadline for the UN resolution passes ought to be our opening position. I don't say this lightly. I've got a son-in-law in Iraq now. I'm fully cognizant that this wouldn't endear us to most of the Middle East...
This is 1937 redux. Wishful thinking isn't going to change the situation.
Does anybody want to argue that Iran hasn't been waging war against us by proxy since the Tehran embassy takeover? Go ahead, convince me.
We can pay now, or we can pay more later, but we will pay. Bank on it.
Great post! Hope to be better. Better means more features.
good post,I think so!
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Yes, but a few more like Iwo and my dad (an Army Air Corps P47 pilot) and uncle (USMC) might not have survived WWII.
My wife's Japanese. Her dad traded days off with a co-worker, or he would have been killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. My mother-in-law said that everyone knew the war was lost, but they would have kept fighting had it not been for the bomb. I have all the sympathy, admiration and respect in the world for Japan. But I'm glad we ended it then, whatever it took.
You don't win wars by holding back. This one will be won or lost in Tehran. We better pray our leadership has the guts to win this thing, or our descendents who survive will curse our memory.
Sorry. It's an ugly post. I've got a pretty ugly memory of burying my best friend from high school, too. We didn't fight to win that war and it didn't turn out too well.