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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-710867
The IDF Trains for the Next War
(Jerusalem Post) Seth J. Frantzman - Israel's army is training for a new kind of war. The goal is to push intelligence to frontline units and streamline the "sensor to shooter" loop, meaning that soldiers should be able to identify threats faster and neutralize them with a variety of means. That entails knitting together ground forces with the air force, using digital technology and artificial intelligence. New combat vehicles and drone swarms will be used as well. "You can see a huge difference," said one officer. "When I was in the army for the first time 10 years ago, nothing was digitized, and now it's [the technology is] quick and up-to-date, and you can activate whatever unit you want to fire." An officer in an operations room noted, "If there is a platoon that is trying to take a certain objective and they get stopped by snipers...they can use us to help them remove the target in a short period of time."