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Israel Strategy Accents Offense over Defense
(Defense News) Barbara Opall-Rome - In a comprehensive strategy document released this month, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot outlined strategic, operative and domestic considerations driving priorities and investments through 2020, with offensive capabilities being Israel's overarching military modernization priority. Eisenkot's definition of offense includes a full spectrum of intelligence-supported, networked-enabled attack capabilities by air, land, sea and in the cyber realm. He also calls for building up the IDF's ability to insert paratroopers and other infantry units for direct attacks "on the center of gravity of the enemy." Attack operations must be "simultaneous and of high intensity." The IDF must be prepared to wage effective, "highest intensity" attack operations "at all times" at a rate of thousands of targets per day for several days. If fighting lasts longer than a few days, the IDF must have the capacity to generate new targets and attack them at a sustained rate of hundreds of targets per day.