My senior commanders objected, asking “why do you have ‘defeat the enemy’ in your mission statement? We are not asking you to do that.” I responded that “we are engaged with modern-day barbarians who are the enemies of all civilized people, we have the means to defeat them, and, since we did come all this way, I thought we would knock it out.” - LTG McMaster Sound familiar? Hamas must be destroyed. Their will (belief) that they can achieve victory in maintaining power in the Gaza Strip must be destroyed. Strategy vs tactics mismatch. Hamas cannot be destroyed without removing and replacing their power (political). https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essays/responses/the-classic-art-of-war-requires-integrating-all-elements-of-power?welcome=mosaic
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