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Originally Posted by geetrue
If the Israel's enemies are so smart ... how did they lose the 6 day war?
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That is over a generation ago...!
Thirty years ago, electronic calculators were rare. the TI-30 that my grandfather ordered - cost 700 D-Marks! And today? Every teenager can afford to have his own gloal communication gadget, a mobile tricorder and a computer with incredible calculation capacity that 30 years ago would have costed hundreds of thousands - and even then it was not available for many institutions.
So it is with modern weapons as welol, and communication tools, especially ATGMs and shopulder-launched SAMs. These factors even can counter the modenr tanks and air force of Israel, in combination with guerilla tactics.
And have you ever realised HOW CLOSE that war was, and how threatening high Israeli losses and how low their supplies in the end were...? They won, but do not dare to think it did not cost them.
The wars of '67 and '73 mean nothing today anymore. Even tactics have chnaged, due to Israel'S enemy no longer being a regular army, but a terror-guerilla.
And the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon - don'T make me laugh. It just illustrated the UN's adamant determination to fail again. OF COURSE they did not stop weapon supplies reaching Hezbollah - what have people thought it else would do? Stopping them and fight Hezbollah...? Did they really think they would smuggle weapons via sea lanes now because a nice parade of Western frigates and patrol boats ships up and down the Lebanese coast now? The UNIFIL was naive, like so many missions of the UN. The UN should be forbidden to raise mandates for sending troops and forces. It simply is too incompetent with this matter.