時代は・・・・
- 2011/02/18 07:42
- Category: 社会
明らかに相転換した。イスラエルはエジプトの変化に伴って、"multi-front war"への準備を強化している。IDF内部では最悪のシナリオを想定し、戦略を練っている、と。
In the Israel Defense Forces, generals are planning for worst-case scenarios.
In a series of farewell addresses this month, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi offered a rare insight into how the Israeli military sees the emerging threats and what it is doing to meet them.
Ashkenazi spoke of "tectonic changes" in the region, leading to gains for the Iranian-led radical axis at the expense of the region’s moderates. He pointed to the growing dominance of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Islamist shift in Turkey and now the danger that Egypt, once the linchpin of the moderate camp, will fall into the orbit of radical Islam.
Things could get even worse, he said, when the Americans finally pull out of Iraq, leaving that Shiite-dominated country free to lurch toward the radicals.
In Ashkenazi's view, all this means that the IDF needs to prepare for a significant broadening of the spectrum of threats against Israel. Not only does the IDF have to be ready to fight a simultaneous war on several fronts, it must be able to wage very different kinds of warfare -- from "low intensity" irregular conflict with terrorists, to classical conventional warfare against regular armies, to missile warfare against states or powerful non-state actors like Hezbollah.
・With Egypt in turmoil, Israel rethinks readiness for multi-front war
キーワードは"tectonic changes"。アメリカにも叱責されつつ、孤立感を深めるイスラエルは、自存自衛のスタンスを頑なまでに強化する方向へ行かざるを得ない。彼らにとって周囲はすべて敵なのだ!かくしてあらゆるレベルと方面に対する"multi-front"な装備と戦略をもってその日に備えているわけだ。詩篇83編の成就は近い。
イスラエルとパレスチナの歴史を6分で復習すると-
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・・・と、私が80年代を懐かしんでいたら、やはり同じような世代の人たちがCMを作っているようで、何とTOP GUNがスバル・モードになっておりました。私もかつてKenny Logginsの"Danger Zone"をBGMにTelstar TX-5でキケンなノリで飛ばしていたものだが・・・