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2)
Reducing the effectiveness of its capabilities against the Israeli home
front.
c.
3)
Achieving goals perceived by the enemy as being valuable to them.
4)
Harming the enemy's will to continue fighting.
In addition, in each aggressive campaign, significant weight shall be given to
defensive measures and border protection, as a key component to reduce the
enemy's achievements and increase the IDF's freedom of action.
d.
The IDF’s concept for achieving a military resolution is the maneuver
approach.9 This is based on focused offensive operating components imposed
on the enemy's weak points, while exploiting relative advantages, with an
emphasis on: initiative, impetus, and pace. A combination striving to achieve
surprise and shock. This intends to damage the enemy's decision-making
process, to decrease the effectiveness of its action as soon as possible, both in
terms of time and resources at its disposal, while employing minimal IDF
means.
Limited Campaign
13. From time to time, the IDF will be required to conduct campaigns with limited or
delineated achievements. In most cases, these types of campaigns, aimed to
restore calm and provide future deterrence, will cause limited damage to the
enemy.
a.
The operational logic is characterized by focused and limited actions to achieve
valuable strategic goals, integrated by a defensive effort, all of which exhibit
potential military defeat to the enemy. These actions will demonstrate to the
enemy the potential damage resulting from the deterioration of the situation,
and the low effectiveness of its actions. This will pressure it to halt its actions.10
b.
The operational achievements of this campaign are based on a combination of:
1)
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Partial negation of specific enemy capabilities.
From "maneuvering the enemy."
This pattern of behavior is called "enforcement."