Military Agility

Military Agility
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The need to quickly enter into conflict and succeed in the initial engagements is an enduring demand on militaries around the world. Given today's dynamic geopolitical environment, the concept of successful, rapid transition or organizational and mental readiness is more relevant than ever.Using the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a case study , Meir Finkel explores four important but generally neglected challenges of a swift transition from peace to wartime operations. He investigates the challenging mental transition from peace or routine security employment to a higher-intensity mode of action in combat. Then, Finkel explains that militaries must be capable of rapidly resolving debated prewar concepts and doctrine even as war breaks out. He also discusses how to integrate and employ new weapons systems delivered at the last minute or during a conflict. Lastly, he delves into methods for managing the tension between the need to win every tactical engagement in low-intensity conflict and the preparation of forces for a high-intensity conflict. With clear applications for the IDF and US armed services, Finkel's study offers specific examples of hard-to-accomplish rapid transitions as well as broad suggestions for how to improve readiness. Military Agility will appeal to military personnel and leadership, strategists, historians with an interest in comparative analysis, and policymakers.

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Meir Finkel. Military Agility

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Military Agility

History is replete with examples of notable military campaigns and exceptional military leaders and theorists. Military professionals and students of the art and science of war cannot afford to ignore these sources of knowledge or limit their studies to the history of the US armed forces. This series features original works, translations, and reprints of classics outside the American canon that promote a deeper understanding of international military theory and practice.

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Lieutenant Ran Ronen (Pekker) describes his first combat mission in a Mystère squadron in the Sinai War, which he carried out with insufficient knowledge of the aircraft he was flying: “Only after we crossed the Israeli-Egyptian border east to Gaza did I realize that we were actually headed for war! I found myself seated in a new plane that I’d accumulated only 15 hours in the air with and was just beginning to learn its maneuverability in aerial combat or in attacking ground targets. I’d never operated its weapons systems…. This was a lethal combination of flying too low for strafing, uncontrolled deviation of the new and unfamiliar aircraft, and precarious terrain.”80

The ground crew also had problems with the new aircraft: “‘Jettisoning drop tanks!’ I looked at the wings and was horrified to see the detachable fuel tanks were still locked in place and what was plunging to the ground were the rocket pods…. The munitions crew definitely got it wrong when they connected the jettison system which they were obviously uninstructed in…. The series of foulups in the aircraft was quite large. The technicians had lots to learn yet about the new plane…. The Mystère had just been assimilated and was already engaged in actual combat.”81

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