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Article: The 2006 Lebanon war: lessons learned.(Report)
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
- Author:
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To critics of airpower, Israel's 2006 war with Hizballah exposed the fallacy that targeting centers of gravity, such as population, command and control, and infrastructure could coerce the adversary into surrendering, and that airpower could obviate the need for land forces and independently win wars. Given Israel's unexpected challenges in waging the Lebanon war, airpower and then Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, seen as the overzealous proponent of airpower, became easy targets in after-action reports, criticism that ultimately led to Halutz's resignation and replacement by Gaby Ashkenazi, a former infantry commander. (1) But does the Lebanon war warrant a swing of the ...