{"id":193189,"date":"2009-01-11T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/11\/luck-is-a-residue-of-design\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T13:01:00","slug":"luck-is-a-residue-of-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/11\/luck-is-a-residue-of-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck is a Residue of Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img57.imageshack.us\/img57\/142\/mapwa8231010hh8.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"385\" \/>By the standards of any counterinsurgency campaign, the IDF has <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">superb<\/span> intelligence on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>There is also some luck involved, as when Israeli paras <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A954ef738-ba59-4111-bbc6-a7b2fd118e5b\">captured a man and found a detailed map of the measures that had been taken by Hamas in the al-Atatra neighborhood in Gaza<\/a>.  (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3653059,00.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I would assume here that the reason that this man was targeted in the first place was because it was believed that he had valuable information.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting side note to all this, is that Hamas is going <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beau_Geste\">Beau Geste<\/a> in their plans, using manikins to tactical advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The irony there is obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the standards of any counterinsurgency campaign, the IDF has superb intelligence on the other side. There is also some luck involved, as when Israeli paras captured a man and found a detailed map of the measures that had been taken by Hamas in the al-Atatra neighborhood in Gaza. (see also here) I would assume &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}