“Where did we go wrong?".
“The ground forces should have entered earlier and should have been called up earlier. The forces should have been better prepared – in this respect we were mistaken. I don’t know if this would decrease our fatality rate, because such operations have a price, but in my opinion the war would not have lasted as long.”
Who didn’t make the decisions? The political echelon?
Mainly the political echelon. The government officials are those who decide.
So they made things difficult for you?
I’m not certain that they made thing difficult for us. I can also understand them, but they did not reach decisions fast enough. “The wise thing to do would have been to begin the operation earlier, just as we had planned,” he said.
Just one day before everything started, a General Staff forum in which both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz participated was held. Major General Adam painted a picture of the situation on the eve of war, "I said there that we must do something about the situation Hizbullah has gotten to, to talk to someone or to blow hot air."
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