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Shadow Warrior: what works against terrorists: Israeli tactics - Decapitation not "Police action"
- Against terrorism "police action" is just not going to cut it - what
works is "decapitation". Israel has always understood it and US has
recently learned it as revealed by the statistics at - Wonder when India will learn this lesson w.r.t both Maoists and Islamists?
- No Credit Where Credit Is Due
- For political, diplomatic and anti-Semitic
reasons, it's not likely that the Israelis will get the credit they
deserve for the defeat of Islamic terrorist groups throughout the
world. But it was Israeli concepts and tactics that helped bring Iraq
IED (roadside bomb) casualties down from a high of 84 a month in May
of 2007, to a low of 9 in May of 2008. - Islamic nations tend to credit the United States (if they credit any
foreigners at all) for these successful tactics. But it was Israel
that pioneered this approach, and made it clear that it worked, and
how. - What the terrorists really want is to avoid any more of the Israeli
tactics that shut down their terrorist operations. This included going
after terrorist leaders and technical specialists, and either
capturing or (failing that) killing them. Raids and air attacks were
made against buildings used by the terrorists, and tight security on
Israelis borders were instituted. This last measure crushed the
Palestinian economy, which put popular pressure on the terrorists to
stop their attacks, and promise to keep it that way. - The Israelis also set up an increasingly effective intelligence system
inside Palestinian territories. What the Israelis basically did was
"take the war to the enemy." This is an application of the old maxim,
"the best defense is a good offense." This particular war is still
going on, but the Israelis only adopted their winning tactics in 2003
and two years later the terrorists were rendered largely ineffective.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Shadow Warrior: what works against terrorists: Israeli tactics - Decapitation not
