Defense and Technology Tnternational has a very interesting analysis of the Israel-Lebanon war of last summer.

Their conclusion is that the Israeli military has become too dependent on hight tech precision strike at the expense of their traditional strength, maneuver warfare.

The money quote is, “In asymmetric warfare as in classic combat operations, fire is meant to support battlefield maneuvers – a battlefield cannot be secured by fire alone.”

It should be noted that the military that buys into this concept, standoff firepower operations (SF0) to the greatest degree, is the US military, and may be contributing to real problems in Afghanistan, where our allies clearly see us as bomb happy, and Iraq.