(X) Maj. (ret.) John Spencer - Anyone who believed Hamas could be swiftly dismantled was never a serious student of war. Hamas spent decades transforming Gaza into a fortress: a vast subterranean network of tunnels, a militarized landscape of civilian infrastructure, and a society indoctrinated for jihad. It was an autonomous warfighting entity - an entire region engineered for protracted conflict. Now, that war is being met with clarity of purpose. Israel is not merely engaging in a military offensive, it is a campaign to dismantle the machinery of terror and reshape the strategic future of the region. The writer is chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
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