Comments on: The Merkava question http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:07:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SnoopyTheGoon http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948/comment-page-1#comment-19527 SnoopyTheGoon Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:03:06 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948#comment-19527 "Hezbullah, of course, is lying about how many tanks they took out." Lies are part of the miltary arsenal from times immemorial, and as much as I would like to believe that only one side (Hezbollah) undulges in this activity, I cannot. And Michael is right. The main question is whether the surprise caused by the quality and quantity of Hezbollah's anti-tank launchers caused, in turn, our armed units to behave differently than they would otherwise. “Hezbullah, of course, is lying about how many tanks they took out.”

Lies are part of the miltary arsenal from times immemorial, and as much as I would like to believe that only one side (Hezbollah) undulges in this activity, I cannot.

And Michael is right. The main question is whether the surprise caused by the quality and quantity of Hezbollah’s anti-tank launchers caused, in turn, our armed units to behave differently than they would otherwise.

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948/comment-page-1#comment-19473 Michael Lonie Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:29:43 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948#comment-19473 The real question is not "can a tank be destroyed"? It is "can the tanks accomplish their mission at an acceptable rate of loss"? This is loss both in the sense of men killed and maimed and loss in the sense of numbers of tanks knocked out. The real question is not “can a tank be destroyed”? It is “can the tanks accomplish their mission at an acceptable rate of loss”? This is loss both in the sense of men killed and maimed and loss in the sense of numbers of tanks knocked out.

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