It took only fifteen years for an army once known for its agility and operational brilliance to turn into a clumsy bureaucratic labyrinth, according to Colonel Emanuel Wald's report to Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levi. Not surprisingly, Wald's conclusions greatly embarrassed Israeli political and military leaders as news of the report circulated t
Now available in English, The Wald Report is Colonel Emanuel Wald's report to Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levi regarding the diminishing effectiveness of Israeli National Security. Wald's findings are supported by a detailed analysis of the steady decline of the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF's) administrative and operational abilities.
Introduction -- The Peace for Galilee War: Anatomy of a Military Failure
-- Overview of the Peace for Galilee War -- An Analysis of Major Combat
Operations -- The Operational Picture in Northern Command -- Anatomy of a
Military Failure -- The Military Outcome of Previous Wars: Why Were the
Lessons not Learned? -- The Six Day War -- The Yom Kippur War -- Lessons of
the Wars -- Why Were the Lessons not Learned? -- The Twilight of Military
Power: IDF Force Construction Between the Wars (19731982) -- The Flood Tide
of Inputs -- Development of the Ground Forces -- The Demilitarization of the
Officer Corps Pyramid -- The Debilitation of the General Staff -- The Moloch
of Absolute Security Catch: Why the Security Establishment and the IDF Are
Drowning Themselves in the Sea -- A Military Boxing Match -- Mistaken
Assessments -- An Exclusive Club: The Over-the-Hill Gang -- Worshipping the
Moloch of Absolute Security
Colonel Emanuel Wald served as the head of the Department of Long-term Planning within the General Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. He received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell Graduate School, Syracuse University, in 1972, and currently is consulting for public and private organizations, lecturing in major Israeli universities, and completing a new book dealing with the Israeli national defense Gordian knot.
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