From a provacative, and readable, Israeli politician’s blog, a military veteran member of milblog, of which I also am a proud member. Food for thought as the Jewish state reclaims its security.
"Israel is not the first Jewish state in the two thousand years. The Jews rebuilt their state several time. It lasted sometimes years, sometimes possibly even two centuries. The eternal Rome proved not so eternal, and neither would be Israel. We live, and we die. States expand, and contract, and cease. Societies are in permanent flux. The maximum we can strive for is to make the inter-war periods longer and the wars shorter. That could be achieved. Overwhelming destruction will terrorize the enemy for decades. Mobile penetrating strikes and preemption can make the wars short. Israel just cannot conduct any other wars: low-end Iranian and Egyptian armies have more sustaining power than IDF. Israel only bests her enemies if striking fast, hard, and deep."
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