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Source: https://besacenter.org/the-2006-origins-of-israels-multidomain-post-october-7-warfare-strategy/
The Origins of Israel's Post-October 7 Warfare Strategy
(Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Prof. Anthony Celso - In the last three years, Israel killed much of the senior leadership of Hamas and Hizbullah as well as 29,000 Hamas and over 5,000 Hizbullah militants, crippling its enemies' combat effectiveness. Israel's military success against the Iranian insurgent proxies is surprising. It defied post-War on Terror thinking about the lack of utility of military power against decentralized insurgent networks. Israel's success against Hizbullah was facilitated by Hizbullah's organizational evolution into a conventional terror army with conventional assets and defensive infrastructure. With Iranian and North Korean support, Hizbullah was equipped with sophisticated weaponry fortified by underground tunnels. Its tunnel networks and extensive rocket arsenal proved resistant to Israeli airstrikes. After the 2006 war with Hizbullah, Israel began constructing a Digital Land Army, or DLA. Drones, satellite images and artificial intelligence were pooled into centralized information systems to target enemy commanders, combat units, weapons depots, and communication systems. After Oct. 7, infantry and tank units were equipped with drones to facilitate real-time targeting of enemy forces. The IDF's Multiyear Plan envisioned digitally integrated, intelligence-driven, mass-precision air- and land strikes to rapidly destroy enemy military capabilities with the smallest possible number of IDF casualties. The writer is Professor of Global Security Studies at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas.