Porter Alexander on Lebanon

Reading the civil war memoir Fighting for the Confederacy, by Longstreet’s chief of artillery, Brig. Gen. Edward Porter Alexander, I seem to have come across the IDF’s plans for the Hez:

"The first of all maxims for the conduct of a campaign is to oppose fractions of the enemy’s army with the whole unit of your own…," Alexander wrote. "The second great axiom in the art is if possible to act against your enemy’s communications, without exposing one’s own."

Or, in the IDF’s case, airstrike Hez’s headquarters in Beruit, etc., and hit the airport and the major highways to cut their communications, before launching en masse to oppose "the fractions" in the South.

"The simple fact that no army can subsist for long without daily supplies of food & ammunition from the rear," Alexander continued, "indicates at once the vital importance of keeping its communications to the rear free from interruption."

All the disruption between the rear and the South — possibly leading to the extinction of the Hez fighter — could be why Syria and Iran are calling for a ceasefire.