Lets hope these guys/gals know what to do in a battle. Since everybody around you is threatening to go to war with you. The last thing you need is to fight Hezbollah, a guerrilla trained army, with officers that don't know what to do in battle. Better start in the field training, in war set scenarios. Get the best trained officers working with the ones that need training. I'm surprised the IDF would risk the countries security, to promote friends.

The more things change, the more they remain the same. I recently read Chasnoff's "The 188th Crybaby Brigade", a bitter-sweet tale of a Chicago kid who joined the IDF in the 1990s. Sometimes outrageously funny, one also witnesses from his tale the destructive effect on morale and effectiveness when quality leadership is lacking. The end result of that deficiency is that it gets people killed.

barak is an example of an officer without sufficient training. dressing up as a woman and killing arabs in beirut is not a qualification to run a land war. As we see in the flotilla affari, Caroline Glick has written that it was barak who restricted the naval commandos to paintball guns thereby putting them in grave danger of lynching just like in ramallah where barak did nothing. Dann and Trengo have reviewed barak's record and find it is replete with error after error. Reporters, please publish whether it was barak's idea for paintball guns.

It goes far deeper, and will cost probably hundreds, if not thousands of lives, rivalling the lack of preparedness for the Yom Kippur War. CoS Ashkenazi is the last serving officer that fought in the Yom Kippur War. Galant probably fought in some way during Lebanon 1 (although his operational experience in special ops is unquestioned); the rest probably did not "know Sinai"; "grew up" during a very lengthy period of hugely reduced semi autonomous, conventional armored & combined forces training/action, with much more minor police actions & border security then ever before. The last 20-25 years of officers enlisted & served during the hysterical Four Mothers Movement, soft, "mootzela-pootzela", "Phone calls to the commander" era. Advancement should be: * Slowed dramatically (no more "2career", retire at 45, draw a double pension officers); * Conventional training increased (the next war will very likely be conventional, even if involving only 1-2 divisions), &; * Wartime experienced (Lt Col to Brig Gen) who served ~1965-95 brought in as mentors for all units. There will be plenty of volunteers, & there is no replacement for hard won experience. Given the technical advancements, speed of communications, ability of the political echelon to intervene non stop (like Olmerde playing stop-start video games with armored divisions during Lebanon II); & the chaos created with small units of Hezbollah or Hamas versus conventional forces; the potential for monumental mayhem in a small operational theatre is phenomenal. War is chaotic enough without untrained, inexperienced commanders at all levels.

Thank you. I will be looking for that.

A government that lets soldiers rot in the hands off terrorists while allowing traitors/spies like Tibi / Zoabi to sit in parliament : this government is 200% unqualified and must be removed ASAP !

those cursed by their hands in the "Disengagement"