Military Analysis and History

  THE MYTH OF ISRAELI INVINCIBILITY. PART IX 2006 – Intervention in Lebanon              In the 2000s, Israel's military dominance in the Middle East persisted. Its assets in this regard remained the same: US support, feared special services, air power, and technological superiority. The capacity to employ 'blitzkrieg' tactics remained, yet there were no longer any adversaries against whom to use them .           Israel's security remained solid. There were no longer issues with neighboring states, except for Syria, which, however, posed no threat. Saddam Hussein's regime had disappeared from Iraq, and with it, the threats to Israel. Libya had vanished from the list of adversaries, resorting to a policy of normalization with democratic states. Palestinian groups in the West Bank and Gaza remained, but Israel was in the midst of a peace process with Palestinian political movements. The only direct and im...