Fighting Under a Microscope | IDF's Tactical Precision Redefines Urban Warfare with Yaakov Katz

The battles in Gaza are defined by dense urban warfare, against a terrorist enemy that deliberately embeds itself in protected facilities, like schools and hospitals. The eyes of the world are on Gaza, and everyone is taking notes. Terrorists are taking notes, whether hiding in the basement of a hospital will give them immunity. And Israel’s Western allies are taking notes, learning how Israel is setting new standards in urban warfare.

Israel is not only applying the rules of international law, in conditions that they have never been applied, it is applying those rules in conditions they were never written to apply.

While media narratives focus on destruction and accuse Israel of atrocities, those who understand military tactics recognise the significance of what the IDF is managing to achieve in this environment. Utilising precision strikes in a place where the military landscape is defined not only above ground but below it.

My guest today brings to bear decades of experience on the field as a military correspondent, Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief, author, and now fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute. Yaakov has literally written the book on Israeli military tactics not once, but three times. With more yet to come. He joins me in the studio to take us through the innovations of the IDF operations in Gaza and how, as he puts it, this war represents an “unprecedented battlefield”.

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