The IDF's mission in Gaza is not only to 'close with and destroy the enemy,' but to do so consistent with the values reflected in the laws of armed conflict, or laws of war.
Combat leaders live by a mantra: Mission, troops, equipment. This priority of effort—first, accomplish the mission; second, protect your troops; third, protect your equipment—may be simplistic, but it will frame what the world observes if and when the Israel Defense Forces initiate ground operations in Gaza.IDF leaders at every level are preparing to engage in close-combat operations to destroy Hamas.
Hamas knows a more powerful force is coming. But unlike most professional militaries, for Hamas information is not a supporting effort to combat success; combat is a supporting effort to information success. And they have prepared Gaza to produce those combat effects. IDF commanders and the soldiers they lead will face a labyrinth of sophisticated tactical traps in areas where the effectiveness of their superior firepower will be negated by urban terrain.
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