Israeli Military Invests In Cyber Warfare
The Israel Defense Forces shift emphasis away from conventional weaponry.
A few weeks ago, I published here in Al-Monitor a long talk I had with a colonel who had just been discharged from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). During that talk, the officer, who wished to remain anonymous, dismissed all the age-old conventions held by a consensus of the Israeli defense establishment over more than a generation.
There's no need, he said, for so many tanks; there's no need, he asserted, to have so many planes; the Israeli defense doctrine should be changed and revamped to meet the events in the Arab world in general and the challenges of the future battlefields in particular.
