Posted on 08/08/2006 11:48:26 PM PDT by garbageseeker
On Wednesday morning a reservist force operating in the village of Ayta al- Shaab killed two Hizbullah gunmen.
Over the course of Wednesday night, the IAF carried out 120 airstrikes on Lebanese targets.
Close to 80 buildings and headquarters of the Hizbullah were attacked. Also targeted were four rocket launchers, 25 roads, several vehicles and seven bridges, mostly along the Litani river.
The IDF expects to begin moving towards the Litani river later Wednesday following a security cabinet meeting during which the IDF will ask for permission to deepen its incursion into Lebanon.
Since the beginning of the hostilities the IAF has carried out some 9500 sorties over Lebanon and has attacked over 5000 targets.
On Tuesday, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz decided Tuesday to sideline OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam and appointed Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky as his personal representative in the North.
Adam expressed displeasure with Halutz's decision but said in television interviews aired Wednesday that it was perfectly legitimate to appoint a senior officer, especially a deputy chief of General Staff, to assist the commander of a front in time of war. Senior officers close to Adam, however, said he was "shocked and insulted" by Halutz's decision to appoint Kaplinsky to coordinate land, sea and air operations in Lebanon.
Meanwhile Tuesday, the IDF geared up for its largest planned ground incursion into Lebanon since war erupted, with Halutz preparing to present the security cabinet with a plan to send tens of thousands of troops north to the Litani River and beyond - to places like Nabatiya - from which Hizbullah fires most of its short- and medium-range rockets. Thousands of troops were heading north on Tuesday.
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LOL :)
LOL
You are funny!
faster please!!! should have been in beirut by now
You have to take into account that this is an asymmetrical war and that is the reason why things do not look like its quick. But the politicians in Jerusalem had a different point of view.
asymmetrical war = the enemy pretends to be "civilians" and the "civilians" pretend they don't have anything to do with the enemy...
we were smarter about these kinds of things in WWII
More than funny. Unfortunately true.
Yes, that's my point. We should have been attacking the civilians just as much as the enemy...carpetbombing cities and so on. That's how you win a war. Instead all we got were "My Lai," and now we get "Haditha." In WWII we firebombed Dresden, knowing that the population was inextricable from the Nazi leadership. Israel right now should be treating at least the southern Lebanese as an enemy population.
Also saves having to build all those boat garages.
LOL!!!
Where's Patton when we need him.
He's dead.
That is a Douhet model of to fight war. I am a big believer in that
That's a negative. For one, we technically didn't get our butts handed to us in Vietnam. The outcome of all of the engagements was heavily in our favor. We lost the political battle, which is a *completely* different thing. Additionally, the political defeat outcome could have been avoided should we have cut their supply lines coming from the Soviet Union. But again, political considerations prevented that. Vietnam was a battle within the context of the Cold War, and, as such, served as warning to Soviets that we wouldn't back down. We did after the political situation at home became untenable, and, there were no more points to be made with the Soviets.
((Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
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