One of the mistakes we are doing on the Israeli side is to sit and get our nose buried in ancient tomes of strategy. Sun Tzu, Clausewitz and so on.

Add to this, the lack of true deep understanding of strategy also hinders us.

You need to know your Alexander the Great to truly be a general in any true sense.

What you notice if you compare Sun Tzu with Alexander the Great and Clausewitz is that the basic skill of figuring out the battlefield is the same, in any century, but the BATTLEFIELD itself is different from time to time.

In Alexander’s time he stood before massive amounts of infantry and chariots. So he engeneered some innovative ways to put up his soldiers in slightly slanted formations and made “mousetraps” to trap the chariots.

The application of superior strategy won him the day. He had like 70.000 men against two millions. He was brilliant, and was thus called the great.

Clausewitz explains the genius of Napoleon the Great.

What Napoleon did was to take the very strict and formalized troop positioning and loosen it with superior understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of his men and that of the opponent. It was like a wave of revolutionaries descending on the ancient troop formations of the royalty of the time. So he won.

Taking this knowledge to reflect the current battlefield, what stands out?

You probably figured it out, we are not the geniuses of this fight, Hamas is the geniuses of the fight. They are playing us like a fiddle.

Yes they do unspeakable horrible things, but they are really good at it. And they are still holding on to a faith of winning. Despite all the material and infantry we have thrown at the.

Stand back, and truly acknowledge their genius.

I am not saying this to humble IDF, IDF has fought valiantly.

But to push the basic principle of Sun Tzu into the minds of the generals of the IDF. Know your enemy better than yourself, and you shall win.

This is the current problem of the fight. Our generals are not really understanding the fighting methods of Hamas.

That is the problem.

So the solution is pretty simple. Study. Study their fighting tactics. REAL hard.

Let me give you a base to stand on.

First of all, Hamas does not really care about winning or loosing in the battlefield. What they REALLY care about is winning in the MEDIA. Their true battlefield is the CONCEPTION of Israel in the world. So if they can somehow find a way to smear Israel as evil, they will. And if the Israeli leadership is not awake, they will succeed in turning the international PERCEPTION around. Making Israel the villain.

See?

They have almost outsmarted us by lying about the fatigue and hunger in Gaza.

They almost succeeded. That is a masterful application of strategy. With almost no ressources, they got us.

It’s truly remarkable and a testament to a truly dedicated and skilled opponent.

So, with this in mind, can we please start fighting with the same perception!

It’s a dual fight. One is on the ground, the other one is in the media, and they go in tandem.

Beware of this tactics and find countermoves when you see some of them unfurling.

G-d bless the prowess of the IDF. May we prevail.