[niteowl77]

Perhaps if you were more familiar with the IDF operations in Beirut and Jenin, you would appreciate the author's insight into the applicability of IDF urban tactics to our experience in Iraq.

Perhaps if I was more familiar with any number of things it would change my assessment of this assessment. As it is, much of the article struck me as restatement of what I have already read elsewhere, and I found the "conclusion" disappointing- thus my earlier remarks.

[Always A Marine]

Oh, well. The article was written in a journal for military professionals by military professionals, so that perspective is taken for granted. Suffice it to say that we've had great success adopting urban tactics pioneered by the Israelis, and that we are now adapting them to fit our different needs and objectives.