Posts Tagged: Israeli army
Why Israel’s Political Crisis Is Extremely Dangerous for the Israeli Air Force
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has acknowledged a steady decline in its capabilities resulting from the ongoing political crisis in Israel. The decline appears primarily...
Artificial Intelligence & Robot Weapons: The Media’s Skewed Coverage of Israel’s Defensive Technology
As the development of technology advances at a rapid pace, Israel’s security establishment has continuously worked to integrate the latest innovations into its operations, making...
The Russo-Ukraine War: Possible Lessons for the IDF
The war in Ukraine is an example of modern high-intensity warfare. As such, it offers a number of lessons that can be learned about the...
The Israeli Defense Establishment’s Budget Accountability Problem
The IDF had all its financial demands met when the Israeli government passed a new NIS 58 billion (net) defense budget at the beginning of...
The Desperately Needed Revolution Within the IDF
In the February 26 edition of the Maariv supplement, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Hasson Hasson stated that the Iranians are already “at the gates.” This unsettling assessment...
Israel’s ‘West Point’ Increasingly Shapes the IDF Ground Forces
Lt. Col (res.) Gideon Sharav, head of the Military Studies department at the IDF’s Tactical Command College (TCC) and today a civilian employee of the...
The IDF Tests Its New Victory Concept for Possible Hezbollah Conflict, Among Others
JNS.org - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has tested out its new victory concept -- based on the ability to use network-centered warfare techniques to...
The IDF and Yitzhak Rabin: A United Military Serving a United People
JNS.org - The following is an excerpt from IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi’s daily order to all Israeli military personnel. It has been...
A Look Into the IDF’s Mysterious New Elite Unit
JNS.org - In the summer of 2019, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) formed a completely new kind of elite unit, and many of the details...
Israel Versus Anyone: A Military Net Assessment of the Middle East
Most published Middle Eastern military net assessments are based primarily on lists of units and equipment. Unfortunately, history proved that such lists are all too...
New IDF Recruits Prepare for Any Future Challenge
JNS.org - The Artillery Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is responsible for delivering a large portion of the military’s firepower to an increasingly...
As Coronavirus Intensifies, Israel Preparing to Mobilize IDF to Fight the Disease
As the coronavirus crisis intensifies around the world, Israel is preparing for the possibility that it may mobilize the army to help combat the disease. The...
Israeli Army in No Rush to Go Fully Robotic
Israel, a world leader in hi-tech, is around 30 years away from its ambition of deploying robot forces, and for now will chose between three...
A Full Plate Awaits Israel’s New IDF Chief
JNS.org - It’s not surprising that Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot spent his last night as army chief in the command bunker underneath IDF headquarters in...