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📰 Israel’s New War Doctrine: From Airplanes to Distributed Fire Israel is no longer planning for the old Ben-Gurion war — short, decisive, and won from the air. It is planning for a long, multi-front grind in which survival matters more than spectacle. The shift is visible in plain language across Israeli defense writing and planning. Jerusalem Post argues that modern adversaries no longer need to beat fighter jets in the sky; they can cripple a country by hunting its sensors, launchers, command nodes, and the supporting infrastructure that keeps air defense alive. That is why Israel’s new thinking is less about one perfect knockout and more about a resilient system: hardened batteries, redundant command links, mobile defenses, decoys, and a wider mix of offensive tools so aviation is no longer the only carrier of strike power. The same logic is reshaping the home front. Israeli officials and editors are increasingly talking about nationwide fortification, underground parking, protected public spaces, and deeper civil-defense infrastructure because the front line now reaches cities, logistics nodes, and civilian life itself. In other words, the question is no longer whether Israel can “close the sky” completely; it is whether the country can keep functioning after partial penetrations in a war that never really leaves the map. That also explains why Israel’s war machine is being redistributed across more than one domain. On the northern front, the fight with Hezbollah has become a campaign of constant pressure rather than a neat battlefield outcome, which makes a stronger ground-based missile component more attractive. In Gaza, the problem is exhaustion: manpower, reserves, time, and political attention are all being consumed by a fight that will not end cleanly, and the same strain runs through Syria and the West Bank, where smaller threats can still trigger expensive responses. The result is a doctrine built around endurance, not triumph. Israel is not replacing airpower; it is demoting airpower from sole king to one tool inside a more distributed kill chain, while turning the home front into part of the battlefield and adapting the state to live under permanent multi-directional threat. That is the real rewrite: from a country that expected wars to end fast, to one that now plans to absorb damage, keep moving, and outlast the next round. #israel#idf#iran#gaza#hezbollah#airdefense#war#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸