It’s very simple:
Failure was not an option.
Only six million Israeli Jews and yet they are leaders in medical technology, military technology and too many other fields to enumerate.
Compare with 1.7 billion muslims whose greatest achievement in the modern era is the suicide bomb belt for children.
Bill Clinton gave it to them.
sorry. I misread the title. I thought it was China.
Israel wanted to be Athens but was forced to become Sparta as well.
The article skirts one major (and politically incorrect) contributing factor to Israel’s rapid ascension in military know-how: a population with a much higher than average IQ. Imagine if it were to occupy 20X it’s current land and have greater access to vital natural resources.
Thank for French for this. France was a major arms exporter to Israel until De Gaulle cut them off. The US stepped up as the major arms supplier for Israel but the Israels learned a lesson they need to be able to rely on themselves.
Israel plays the long game - The Talpiot Project teaches soldiers and the military how to think - Read this and be amazed!
http://www.thetower.org/article/inside-the-idfs-super-secret-elite-brain-trust-talpiot/
It could be that the Holy Creator (God) had something to do with it.
American $$.
My wife and I spent two weeks in Israel in 2014. What a remarkable country. Construction cranes were everywhere. As were young families, pregnant women and young children. You could feel the energy crackling in the air. This is a country with faith in it’s future.
Because every country that surrounds them wants them exterminated from the face of the Earth.
“How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower”
1) To quote the zombies, “BRAINS!”
2) Necessity is the mother of Invention.
Combine the 2, and it is an unbeatable combination.
