Comments on: The Merkava question https://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:03:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: SnoopyTheGoon https://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948/comment-page-1#comment-19527 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.

]]> By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2006/08/27/1948/comment-page-1#comment-19473 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.

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