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2007-01-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel chooses new army chief: media reports

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Posted by Steve White 2007-01-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gaby? Sure he wasn't a press secretary?

Posted by Skidmark 2007-01-23 01:00|| 2007-01-23 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Tanks & infantry commander. Now we're talkin'. On top of that he looks to be one tough MF'er from his photo.

Posted by SpecOp35 2007-01-23 01:23|| 2007-01-23 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 For one side he was at Entebbe but on another side he is 54. What happenned to Tsahal's policy where by 40-45 you were out. This ensured that bright officers weren't kept in subaltern positions while their ageing superiors (thopse who were in power)

a) lost their work capacity due to age
b) were no longer in contact with realities of battlefield
c) clinged to obsolete tactics and strategy (think
in the horse cavalry lobby between world wars)

The fast carreers of Tsahal has ever been one the keys to its triumphs. Another benefit of fast carrers is that indirectly it leads to picking the general as the best candidate in teh army instead of as merely the best betweeen colonels. That is how you produce a Bonaparte, a Lannes and a Davout (both probabaly better generals as Napoleon himself).

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-01-23 07:17|| 2007-01-23 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 What the word on this guy Grom?

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-23 16:51|| 2007-01-23 16:51|| Front Page Top

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