+972 investigation into Israel's targeting in Gaza
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.
www.972mag.com
Interesting article.
The
Dahiyah Doctrine was first used on Lebanon.
Eisenkot presented his "Dahiyah Doctrine," under which the IDF would expand its destructive power beyond what it demonstrated two years ago against the Beirut suburb of Dahiyah, considered a Hezbollah stronghold.
"We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases," he said. "This isn't a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized."
The idea being to get the Lebanon state or the local population to withdraw support from militants.
Using military force against the militants was not that effective as they were embedded in highly populated urban areas.
Fighting a guerrilla army who use tunnels in a defensive war in urban area is not easy.
So attacking what IDF term high power targets is aimed to reduce civilian support or toleration of armed militants in their midst.
Seems to me reading the article their is / was a tension in IDF between targeting buildings to assassinate leading members of armed groups and targeting infrastructure to reduce civilian moral/ support.
With the inevitable collateral damage being an issue.
Looks to me that over years the Israeli public/ international community and IDF have got more inured to higher and higher level of civilian collateral damage.
One of the things about this kind of warfare- using AI / bombing from air is that it distances the military personal from the actual killing. Makes it psychologically easier to kill.
The IDF going on about using AI makes it sound scientific surgical killing.
Another reason given for use of overwhelming force is to reduce a long war against a dug in guerilla army.
Whether this is working that well in Gaza is not clear as IDF seem to be saying they have more work to do in the north.
en.m.wikipedia.org
From Wiki quote of Israeli military analyst about Lebanon where it was first used
With an outbreak of hostilities [with Hezbollah], the IDF will need to act immediately, decisively, and with force that is disproportionate to the enemy's actions and the threat it poses. Such a response aims at inflicting damage and meting out punishment to an extent that will demand long and expensive reconstruction processes. Israel's test will be the intensity and quality of its response to incidents on the Lebanese border or terrorist attacks involving Hezbollah in the north or Hamas in the south. In such cases, Israel again will not be able to limit its response to actions whose severity is seemingly proportionate to an isolated incident. Rather, it will have to respond disproportionately in order to make it abundantly clear that the State of Israel will accept no attempt to disrupt the calm currently prevailing along its borders.
m.jpost.com
