Posted on 10/31/2023 6:55:22 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Israeli officials have vowed to crush Hamas in response to its brutal terror attacks earlier this month, signaling that the way to ultimately do this is through a major ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. That's easier said than done though.
In Gaza, invading Israeli forces will face a complex and dangerous urban environment, in which Hamas' well-armed and well-prepared forces can hide, set up traps, and launch surprise assaults. And some of the most difficult fighting could be underground, in the city-like labyrinth of tunnels that are vital to the militant group's defensive and offensive operations.
Although it is unclear how the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will go about dealing with challenges posed by the tunnels, they are a known threat and one for which the IDF is not unprepared. But while the military has the means to infiltrate this network, a former US Army infantry soldier said that in any capacity, "it will increase the time to conduct an operation in Gaza."
"You can't leave a hole to your back," John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at West Point's Modern War Institute, told Insider. "And you can't not clear a tunnel if there's a potential for a hostage to be in there."
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How does the author know the IDF is not prepared?
I suspect what they might do is plug the holes as they find them and just wait them out, because they will have to come up for air.
Wish they had enough anesthetic gas to pump the tunnels full and then safely enter wearing respirators to clean up.
Author is stuck in 1945. Glorious Soviet Union!
I would have collected about 10k rats, starved them for a week and let them loose in the tunnels...
Cut off their ventilation.
Use LIDAR to map out the tunnels.
Apply Thermobaric weapons GENEROUSLY.
Could work….maybe
The article is pure speculation. I hate this type of crap. It’s news AFTER something occurs and it should be reported on then. With that said, the engineer in me can think of several ways to destroy the tunnels with minimal casualties. That begins with what the IDF has already done. They cut the power. That means no ventilation in the tunnels and it would eventually limit the time Hamas can stay in them. As for any hostages in tunnels, that’s a shame. At this point, military planners have to consider the hostages dead. I’m not from the school for negotiating with terrorists over any issue, particularly hostages. It only begets more hostage taking in the future.
I’ve heard they have a device that explodes and seals the tunnel in a tough foam.
They can seal those SOB’s in and walk away.
Like a spider web, it has to have a central point...FOAM IT!
How deliciously evil!!!
They need to be a ship load of expanding foam (Great Stuff tm). Fill those tunnels and let them suffocate like the rats they are.
>> How does the author know the IDF is not prepared?
The author says the IDF *is prepared*, in a confusing double-negative way — they are “not unprepared”:
“they are a known threat and one for which the IDF is not unprepared”
“Cut off their ventilation.
Use LIDAR to map out the tunnels.
Apply Thermobaric weapons GENEROUSLY.
Could work….maybe”
Screw it pump in carbon monoxide. Let them go take a permanent dirt nap. Or better yet sirin gas. Let them suffer.
Personally, I could care less about the enemy casualties.
Defending those tunnels has its’ own dangers. The Japanese created warrens of tunnels on Pacific islands. Mortality rate among defenders was 100%. We did pretty well against tunnels in Vietnam, too, when we chose to. And then we didn’t have wireguided robots or sponge bombs, both of which the IDF is already deploying.
The Hamas tunnels are known to be dependent on electricity for ventilation. Destroy their sources and they become as uninhabitable as a collapsed gold mine. Find their air intakes and deploy tear gas, or something stronger.
U.S. should send Israel massive amounts of seized fentanyl, with which they could make fentanyl gas, and then deploy that into the tunnel systems
It depends on how much gas is left in Gaza. Hamas wouldn’t be able to survive in the tunnels for long without using gas for ventilation.
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