Rex Brynen, as usual has it right enough.

However one of the things that gets missed is that Israel had a plan for a war with Hezbollah. The incredible thing is, that when the shooting started, they simply did not stick to the plan. This is very well documented in Israel, but almost nowhere else.

What got done it it's place had almost no strategic rationale. - and not helped by the fact that aspects of equipment, training and logistics, critical to the plan, had not been implemented or implemented well enough.