[yarddog]

I also remember that Hezbollah was a bit harder to deal with than I expected. The terrorists seemed to have some success against Israeli tanks.

Maybe a lot of lessons were learned then and the future will be different.

[Reaganite Republican]

They did not fight all out in Lebanon last time, under Labor gov’t

And Israel has quietly QUADRUPLED her air striking power over the last year or two, precisely for this task...

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2014/06/israeli-air-force-quadruples-firepower.html

As for the Lebanese gov’t -dominated by Hezbollah still, I believe- the IDF could destroy the country’s military capacity in just four hours, if necessary:

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/08/israeli-air-force-capable-and-prepared.html

[Always A Marine]

I also remember that Hezbollah was a bit harder to deal with than I expected. The terrorists seemed to have some success against Israeli tanks. Maybe a lot of lessons were learned then and the future will be different.

Indeed many lessons were learned from fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon. And the Israelis have since fielded several key technological innovations.

One of these innovations is Rafael's "Trophy" active defense system for armored vehicles, which detects and destroys incoming missiles several feet from their Trophy-equipped targets. This is Star Wars stuff that provides a dome of protection for IDF tanks that has the enemy baffled as their well-aimed shots are now disintegrating before they can strike the IDF Merkava tanks.