 Source: ""Israel" Defense Site - Deputy Colonel Yutam Gdot" For the first time since four years, I feel worried. I begin to hear the story of peace at the northern borders, and it says that we were actually victorious in the Second Lebanon War. Well, this is something thathe political level says, and it's justifiable. But to hear this from the military level and the armed forces is something absolutely different. With respect to politicians, this issue may be justifiable. According to the National Security Theory, which Ben Gurion Institute came up with in 1947, particularly according to the Theory of Rounds/ the Iron Wall, the ultimate purpose of every round and confrontation is to make the other side do a lot of thinking before going on a further round. As with respect to this, the "government" has probably achieved its purpose. Yet, the purposes of the Military beyond the Second Lebanon War were very practical, and they were as such: - Freeing the kidnapped soldiers: "lldad Regev" and "Ehud Goldwasser" by pressing Hizbullah and Lebanon - Full fire-cease - Deploying the Lebanese Army in the entire South Litany Region - Getting Hizbullah out of southern Lebanon - Relieving the "Israelis" through the absolute eradication of the threat of rocket shells and missiles The Military hasn't achieved these purposes. And it's going to be wrong for it to go in the direction opposite to its war concept, for if the Military does so, then it won't have derived morals; the next round, the results will be very harsh. In November 2007, "Amir Rapaport" published his book "Fire on Our Forces". The subject of the evening was "the Third Lebanon War", and the top question was: "Are we going to get ourselves astray next time, too?" Deputy Brigadier General "Gal Hirsh" made the opening lecture. Then Minister "Ely Yashai"; the "Government" Secretary (during the war) and Deputy General "Yisrael Maymoun"; and the Commander of the Ground Forces (before and after the war),"Yiftah Ron-Tal" held a session. I left the evening while the opening lecture was being made; I had heard enough. In the next morning, I sent "Amir" the following e-mail: "... I was pleased to receive an invitation to attend the evening of the book publication. I believe the top question of the evening was: "Are we going to get ourselves astray next time, too?" Well, it's an important question, and it makes such evening greater and more valuable. Unfortunately, during the opening lecture I heard that "the "Israeli" Military was victorious in this War" and that "the "Israeli" Military was victorious after all of those confrontations", even "more than previous wars". As I heard that, I decided it wasn't right for me to stay there. The opening lecture was a unique model of the way the past changes and adapts itself to the requirements of the "war on consciousness". If we say again that we've been victorious and believe it, too, then we'll have been victorious indeed. An institution or company that changes its past has a certain future. So let's repeat what has been accomplished. In our situation, let's repeat failure." The Military's main failure in the Second Lebanon War resulted from language. Whoever was there crawled back to us. The military language must be secret and understood, and it has to be a language of single, balanced significance: every single sign must relate to a single indicator. So the language must not be uttered by "throngs" and "secretly meeting crowds"; this is convenient for singing rather than for war. The military language is an operative one. From this perspective, we can say that "the outcomes of the war are complicated" (as Brigadier General Gudey Eisencot puts it in an interview with Yedioth Ahronoth Newpaper). On the political level, this is true; however, it's not true on the executive level that is supposed to achieve clear purposes. Have the purposes been achieved? The answer is nope. Every attempt to ignore this truth will prevent us from deriving morals and won't allow us to retrieve the reality when the Military achieves purposes and makes accomplishments. |
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