The odd thing is that Israel’s lesson learned form the 2nd Lebanon war was that boots on the ground win wars. It found major shortcomings in its capabilities d

The odd thing is that Israel’s lesson learned form the 2nd Lebanon war was that boots on the ground win wars. It found major shortcomings in its capabilities due to reliance on its Air Force as the go to solution for any problem and the emphasis on counter insurgency and essentially border security when it came to its ground forces made them unable to perform as well as expected in modern combined arms warfare. Their solution was to restructure all of their reservist battalions, put emphasis on combined ground operations when it came to training institute new large scale military exercises each year in order to have an effective ground force which is capable of taking over and effectively controlling territory something that the IDF forgot how to do. Their opinion was that all the intelligence and smart bombs in the world can’t decisively win an engagement, only ground troops can. So in the coming war especially against a conventional or semi conventional force the US still has the advantage of being the ones who wrote the book on maneuver and combined arms warfare and having what is without a doubt the best trained and equipped professional army in the world.