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Fighting Underground: U.S. Military Must Learn from Israel's Experience
(Breaking Defense) Gen. (ret.) David Perkins and Ari Cicurel - As Israel conducts ground operations against Hizbullah in Lebanon, it has encountered tunnels similar to those beneath Gaza. Not for the first time, Israel is engaged in a new kind of fight that the U.S. will face in its future conflicts. Just as the U.S. has learned from Israel's wars in the past, how Israel is overcoming the risks of tunnel warfare through coordinated troop maneuvers and technological adaptations should drive a shift in the U.S. approach to subterranean combat.