Posté le Vendredi 21 juillet 2006 par michael
D’un site US www.strategypage.com
Basiquement c’est correct et succinct
The Plan Unfolds
July 21, 2006: The Israeli attacks on Hizbollah military facilities are
having an effect, with rocket Hizbollah launches down by more than half (to
about 40 today). Israel has several thousand troops in southern Lebanon, and
they are going after the Hizbollah rocket launching teams. The Israelis have
found that their tactic of dropping leaflets warning civilians to stay away
from residential areas used to store weapons, and especially rockets, has
worked. Despite Hizbollah efforts for force civilians to stay in their
homes, the the vast majority of civilians fled villages and neighborhoods
where it was known Hizbollah was storing rockets. Thus most of the Israeli
bombs destroyed rockets and housing, not people. The UN has not accepted
this, but has bowed to media spin and pro-Hizbollah propaganda, to get
behind the terrorists, and accuse Israel of using « disproportionate force. »
The UN is demanding a cease fire (which, to Hizbollah, is interpreted as a
pause before the next round of attacks on Israel). Despite frequent UN
rhetoric about the benefits of democracy, they appear to have an imperfect
grasp of how it actually works. For example, if a terrorist group were to
fire a thousand rockets into any democracy, the citizens of said democracy
would demand military action against the attackers, not a cease fire and
avoidance of « disproportionate response. »
Israel is now moving into the second week of a three week military
operation. The first week was mainly a bombing campaign to cripple
Hizbollah’s ability to easily move men and munitions around, and to destroy
Hizbollah facilities, particularly rocket storage sites. The air campaign
has hit about 1,200 targets so far, including some 200 rocket storage sites.
There have been about a thousand Lebanese casualties, less than one per air
strike.
The second week has small groups of ground troops going into southern
Lebanon to investigate suspected rocket storage sites. This tactic has
uncovered those storage sites Hizbollah was able to build and hide from
Israeli air and satellite reconnaissance. So far, about half the Hizbollah
stocks of rockets have been destroyed, while about a thousands of the
rockets have been fired into Israel. It’s currently estimated that Hizbollah
had some 14,000 rockets, mostly smaller (122mm) ones.
Hizbollah had also trained several dozen teams of men to get the rockets out
of their storage sites and launch them into northern Israel. In the third
week of the Israeli military plan, more troops will go into southern
Lebanon, and Hizbollah fighters killed or driven out. At that point, Lebanon
or the UN can be invited to come in and take charge of the area, with some
guarantees (a big sticking point) that Hizbollah will not move back. If that
doesn’t work, Israel has the option of creating a 30-40 kilometer deep
neutral zone in southern Lebanon. Several hundred thousand Lebanese
civilians have already fled that zone, and may not be allowed back in until
something is done about Hizbollah.
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22 juil 06 à 07:50
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