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That's as good an excuse I've ever heard....AL-AQSA STORM HERALDS THE RISE OF NON-STATE SPECIAL OPERATIONS
The shock of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault continues to reverberate around the world amidst fears it will be the catalyst for a wider regional war. Many observers are comparing it to the 1973 Yom Kippur war, arguing that Israel repeated many of the same mistakes in failing to anticipate the attack. But this was more than an intelligence failure. It was failure of imagination. Israel grew comfortable managing its relationship with Hamas in Gaza, keeping rocket attacks and suicide bombings to a relatively low level for almost a decade. Moreover, as we saw in a visit last month, Israel’s top security officials are obsessed with the non-state threat posed by Hizballah to the north and concerned with unrest in the occupied West Bank. There was little expectation that Hamas could launch anything Israeli forces couldn’t handle with their then-limited security posture near Gaza.
What Israel missed is the growing democratization of technology, which is rapidly providing new and dangerous capabilities to non-state actors. Stephen Biddle, in his book Nonstate Warfare, argues that this is allowing violent non-state actors to achieve military capabilities that had previously been reserved for states. When carefully integrated into hybrid military-terror campaigns, these can challenge states that insist on maintaining dated misperceptions of their foes. Our research finds non-state actors are increasingly developing special operations capabilities, which are creating strategic and political effects beyond their tactical use.
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Al-Aqsa Storm Heralds the Rise of Non-state Special Operations - War on the Rocks
The shock of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault continues to reverberate around the world amidst fears it will be the catalyst for a wider regional war. Many observerswarontherocks.com
That's as good an excuse I've ever heard....
Imagine that!
It's not as if they weren't warned ahead of time. Bibi shouldn't have moved the military away from that area just days before....
What was he thinking?
What makes something a "special operation"?
....and how is it different than normal planning and coordination that any group of people could employ?
What makes something a "special operation"?
....and how is it different than normal planning and coordination that any group of people could employ?
The rules of war... kill, or be killed, but do it nicely....Special operations warfare | Tactics, Strategies & History | Britannica
Special operations warfare, unconventional military actions against enemy vulnerabilities that are undertaken by specially designated, selected, trained, equipped, and supported units known as special forces or special operations forces (SOF). Special operations are often conducted in conjunctionwww.britannica.com
... Wonder if Blinken visit will cause them to pause?
How do you fight a war when you don't have an enemy?What if this Israeli/Zionist false flag is far more insidious than one might think?
What if Hamas isn't really Hamas, what if they were Zionist funded mercs with the outward appearance of Hamas "terrorists"?
I've seen 'reports/stories' where Hamas was financially supported by the Zionists. Planned opposition.
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