The front line could be underground
David Betz has two articles on this topic this month. First on WoTR a review of training offered by the IDF acting as a catalyst for his thinking, which starts with:Link:http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/pee...are-in-israel/I traveled recently to Israel to visit a state-of-the-art military training facility in the southern Negev Desert opened by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) last year. The facility, at the Tze’elim army base, is meant to simulate urban operations of the kind the Israelis have so often faced in their conflicts with Palestinian and Lebanese militants. Though the degree of emphasis the IDF has placed on military operations in urban terrain has waxed and waned, since the mid-1980s at least it has maintained an extensive training infrastructure for this purpose...
(added) Vice News has a 11 minute video report, from July 20154, on the IDF training facility:https://news.vice.com/video/war-game...-urban-warfare
Curiously he notes the Bundeswehr were training there.
On Kings of War a longer article, with some historical sketches to enhance the arguments:http://kingsofwar.org.uk/2015/12/thi...-underground/?
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