19 specific functional situation. This decision helps to understand the context of the conflict, maintain a dialog with the political echelon, define the basic political situation and helps in the decision making, to raise national resources: a. Routine includes ongoing security, limited protracted conflicts and the Operation Between Wars. b. Emergency refers to limited campaigns and operations not within the framework of war. c. 5. War The IDF strategy is based on operations to achieve the required goal – while organizing the missions, resources and operational authority to attain optimal action and meet the goals set. 6. The IDF will provide a response to initiated emergency steps, and will act to pinpoint regional strategic opportunities. 7. The characteristics of actions in the various situations and the operating logic therein: a. During routine – defensive and offensive actions, promoting legitimacy and conducting non-military actions intended to reduce the enemy's freedom of action and to increase the State of Israel's freedom of action.6 b. During emergency – use of limited military force (compared to a state of war). The objective of the use of force is to show the futility in employing force against Israel, and restore a calm situation without striving for an immediate strategic change. The impact on life on the home front will be as limited as possible. In addition, the campaign will focus on a limited/delineated achievement.7 c. During war – the use of force is characterized by the significant recruitment of military and national resources, along with the willingness to take high risks, and the use of force at high and ongoing intensity to achieve victory. 6 7 This operation will include all efforts and will be managed at the political level, including legal, economic, and public relations operations. Delineated – relative to the maximum possible achievement of decisive victory. The achievement is delineated at the strategic and operational levels. At the tactical level, the achievement required from the units shall be the full achievement of tactical resolution.