[pointsal]

BTTT....interesting reading.

[2banana]

Good analysis - hope it is true - right now it appears that the Israelis are not making much progress...

[grey_whiskers]

(Thunderous applause!)

[johnny7]

If the Hezbollah fortifications were so in-depth near the border... why not an amphibious landing further up the Lebanese coast? Choke-points can always be vaulted.

[Rummyfan]

A take I hadn't read before......

GO IDF!

[unionblue83]

Great article! This is the first article that I have seen that actually shows that Israel is doing exactly what they have done in the past -- use their knowledge of their enemy to the fullest advantage. I have never believed that the Islamonazis could outsmart the IDF/IAF but you wouldn't know that from the reports of "...I think Israel underestimated their opponent.." or "...Israel didn't know what Hizbollah was doing (lack of HUMINT)..."

[Enterprise]

"General Kuribayashi Tadamichi’s Japanese force of 21,000 at Iwo Jima was reduced by the United States Marines to just over 120 POWs (an additional 900 wounded were captured)"

Hey Hezzies - uh, no offense meant, but I hope that the bunker busters seal all of your worthless butts in those caves and tunnels so that there won't be ANY POWs. Hopefully, you'll spend your last days suffering unimaginable thirst and hunger waiting for a rescue that will never come.

[Obadiah]

The government has given me plenty of time, and I intend to use it as long as it takes.”

Israel will chip away, using her superior firepower, soldiers, and leadership to render Hezbollah a defeated Islamist terrorist group.

I pray that this is so!

[chesley]

Allah is on Israel's side.

[PeterPrinciple]

. “‘This battle against Hezbollah is going to last,’ Avi Dichter, Israel’s public security minister” informed reporters. “‘We’re not in any hurry.’”

Needs to be repeated often...............

[lormand]

May God Bless the IDF

[caver]

Great article! I had been wondering why Israel wasn't making any distance on the ground. This explains it.

[RoadTest]

Those who want a cease fire are either at ground zero or they are pro-criminal/Iran/Syria/Hezbollah/JimmyCarter/Kafi Annan/Communist/One World/Islamofascist, - knowingly or unwittingly.

[AmericaUnited]

Hezbollah was counting on a twofold IDF tactic of digging out the entrenched fighters in a costly war of attrition while also moving rapidly into Lebanon, leaving its lines of communications vulnerable to guerrilla ambushes in the rear. The Israelis thus far have not taken the bait.

Excellent read! So many here (with zero actual ground facts) were second guessing the Israeli generals, "They're screwing up. They're fighting PC and will lose", blah,blah, blah. They know what they are doing. BRAVO IDF! BRAVO!

[rob777]

Excellent article, I was about to post it myself but you beat me to it.

[el_texicano]

Excellent analysis...Grind up all Hezballah like so much vermin that they are. This is time for "El Degüello" - "No quarter will be given" because we know these murderous scum do not give mercy either. These vermin must be eradicated. How long will we allow our forbearance to be abused and mocked?

[silverleaf]

Good analysis, accurate I hope.

Also hope the hezzies aren't signing onto Free Republic to update their war strategies.

[Theophilus]

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
- George S. Patton

[SwinneySwitch]

Iwo Jima Ronson

[redrock]

Unlike many here....I am NOT a tactical or stratigic genius.

I can only speak from my personal experience in Vietnam where I served as a lowly field medic.

But whenever the N.V.A. or Viet-Cong stayed in their tunnels and pillboxes to fight...they died.

My guess is that there will be a lot (LOT) of dead terrorists soon.

redrock