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Israel Today, citing a former IDF general, says that Israel lost the ability to build an effective army and have become a one-dimensional air power that cannot win a war on its own

www.israeltoday.co.il Delusional, or prophetic? One IDF general warned a massacre would happen

Most dismissed retired IDF general Yitzhak Brick's warning earlier this year of a Hamas invasion. Now Netanyahu wants his advice on how to win.

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“I have seen soldiers who do not take care of their weapons before leaving the base."

Amerikan troops do that too...

"No army in the world behaves like this. The soldiers carry their smartphones with them everywhere."

Amerikan troops do that too...

"Commands are sent via WhatsApp groups."

lmao wait real talk what the fuck
- There was discussions in resistance medias about how, during the beginning of Al-Aqsa Flood, the occupation soldiers was stuck communicating over tiktok because the Resistance had used a cyberattack to disable all their internal communications.
  
  Seems they switched to whatsapp 🤭
  
  Edit: I found the article.
  
  According to this article with insider information, the cyberwarfare of the resistance shut down all zionist communications networks in a 40km radius around Gaza for the first 24 hours of the Al Aqsa Flood Battle. Subsequently the occupation bases were stormed without any alarms. "Occupation soldiers were forced to communicate over tiktok to make distress calls."
  
  Occupation soldiers were forced to communicate over tiktok to make distress calls."
  
  Tik-tok dancing to request evacuation
- “Commands are sent via WhatsApp groups.”
  
  I want to see how my former OPSEC instructor would react to this information.
  
  Oh my god mine'd go fucking nuclear. Absolutely, fucking nuclear. Hell, I used to be an opsec manager and the reaction I typed out this morning was a MUTED instance of what I was feeling irl in the moment.
  
  The same reaction exhausted bewildered look your senior NCO gets during a 'no dumb questions' session when he gets a really really really dumb question like "Sergeant, where does the sun go when it gets dark outside" or "Sergeant, if our knees bent backwards what would our chairs look like?"
- I can confirm, I lurk a discord server that has some IOF combattants, all they do is fuck around
- Paper fucking tigers...
- Remember when the pic of some Ukrainian command center had discord taking up a whole monitor.
“The current situation of the land forces is tragic, they are not ready for war. Emergency supplies are not available, exercises have stopped and the battalions have not trained in years. There is also no weapons training and education, and the army is not capable of carrying out an attack.” The former ombudsman added that technology alone is not enough to win wars. “The truth is that an imaginary reality has been created by the general staff and spread throughout the army. The soldiers have lost their motivation and fighting spirit in recent years, and many are not ready to go into battle.”

Good morning! That bit I bolded has got to be an exaggeration right? Or is the IDF just some sort of failing indoctrination program?

Uncritical support to any IDF soldiers who learn how to frag an officer.
- It's possible. Might be an exaggeration but also entirely possible for this army. They have to set aside some time to learn tactics to terrorize Palestinians you know, and boot camp only lasts so long.
  
  Just over the past two weeks there's been at least 5 reports of the IDF shooting at each other by mistake.
  
  and boot camp only lasts so long.
  
  Shit, if they're using our tactics, it probably lasts south of 3 months tops; with no more than another 3 for whatever tech training equivalent they've got.
  
  Just over the past two weeks there's been at least 5 reports of the IDF shooting at each other by mistake.
  
  I've heard rumors of these but have not seen a single article about it. Do you have one handy?
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do not look at the front page of that website. Good lord!
- It's pretty grim shit.
- The Israel TLD is apparently blocked by my office and I find that hilarious.
How are those 100m jets working out for ya son
If a current IDF dude said it I would say it’s a tactic to get more military funding but ex-IDF sorta implies he knows more than we do about the situation
- Not really any such thing as ex IDF, or ex flag officer
  
  I was thinking that after I posted, to a certain extent, nobody ever LEAVES those orgs, soldiers are different tho. Mike Prysner being a good example of that(US Army not IDF tho)
Don't be too optimistic, Israel still has overwhelming firepower and manpower advantage. They can just shell Gaza until there is no more buildings standing anymore, and then send the troops in. Losses would be still high, probably.
- Loss will definitely be high in such scenario. Bombarding a city to rubles rarely work to the advantage of the invader. It didn't work in German favor during Battle of Stalingrad. It didn't work in British's favor during Battle of Caen. I doubt it would work in IDF favor here, especially against people who have a lot of explosives and nothing to lose.
  
  But yeah, it's going to be ugly, especially consider how little IDF care about collateral damage.
  
  The difference is that in those battles sides were pretty evenly matched in terms of firepower. In our case Israel hold an overwhelming advantage. They have an advantage in the amount of explosives too.
- For sure, but looks like it could end up being a debacle for Israel in the end.
  
  the last 70 years have been a debacle for Israel it hasn't stopped them yet
This actually does a good job of explaining why Israel talks such a big game but won't actually go through with the ground invasion: They can't. They don't have the ability to actually engage another army, or even an armed civillian force, so all they do is drop bombs or take pot shots at civvies.
- Pretty much, and given how US is now stretched thin after a year and a half in Ukraine, seems that Israel's bluff might get called this time around.

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