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Israeli army preparing for another war?​

Jerusalem: A year after suffering surprise setbacks against Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel’s armed forces are poised once more for a major conventional war.
Thousands of conscripts and reservists have been training with an intensity not seen in Israel for decades, flush with emergency funds from a government which speaks of possible new conflicts against arch-foes Syria and Iran. “An army has two jobs: waging war or preparing for war,” said Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi, a career infantryman who took over the military in February.
Few doubt that the Jewish state retains the Middle East’s mightiest war machine, but the chastening experience against Hezbollah has highlighted special challenges for Ashkenazi, commanders and analysts say. He has had to shake up an Israeli top brass that has grown too used to easy wins against Palestinian militants and forgotten how to marshal sweeping ground, sea and air assaults on more formidable foes.
There is also a drive to purge a recent doctrine that argues Israel’s advanced, hands-off battlefield technologies can deliver victory without tanks and troops seizing deep territory. “Ashkenazi is under no illusions, an army is not measured by the type of slideshow it can put on, but by the training of its people,” said Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld. REUTERS
 
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