{"id":196413,"date":"2008-04-29T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/29\/idf-ramps-up-ground-forces-training\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:11:00","slug":"idf-ramps-up-ground-forces-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/29\/idf-ramps-up-ground-forces-training\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF Ramps Up Ground Forces Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <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%3Aecde780b-4eeb-4bfe-bb6d-3287e1413fe6\">increase in focus in training ground forces<\/a>, which accompanies an increase in the status of ground forces is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/aw\/dti0408\/index.php?startid=19\">conclusion of the Winograd report<\/a><sup>*<\/sup>, which reviewed the 2006 Lebanon campaign was quite clear:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\"><p>The military has abandoned the doctrine that stressed precision stand-off firepower over maneuver warfare, arguably the biggest mistake Israel made in the conflict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be noted that the doctrine that they are abandoning is the central doctrine of the US military, particularly the USAF, and it is why you are seeing changes as a result of the experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, when one looks at the failures of the US military, at their core have been a consistent over-reliance on air power, whether USAF fast jets or slower helicopters.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Warning, the format is some sort of mutant flash called NTXbook.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This increase in focus in training ground forces, which accompanies an increase in the status of ground forces is not surprising. The conclusion of the Winograd report*, which reviewed the 2006 Lebanon campaign was quite clear: The military has abandoned the doctrine that stressed precision stand-off firepower over maneuver warfare, arguably the biggest mistake Israel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1007,1063,1159,986,1006,1147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aviation","category-iraq","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-military","category-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196413"}],"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=196413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}