Strategists call for Israeli strikes against expanding WMD threat
Geostrategy-Direct.com
Friday, May 14, 2004
TEL AVIV – Leading strategists in Israel have proposed preemptive strikes
against the expanding threat posed by weapons of mass destruction arsenals in
the Middle East.
A report, entitled "Israel's Strategic Future," called such strikes an option
in preventing the formation of a WMD coalition. The report said the Jewish
state has been threatened by a biological or nuclear first-strike that seeks to
exploit Israel's small space and high population density.
"To meet its ultimate deterrence objectives – that is, to deter the most
overwhelmingly destructive enemy first-strikes – Israel must seek and achieve
a visible second-strike capability to target approximately 15 enemy cities,"
the report, presented to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said.
The report marked the last phase of Project Daniel, sponsored by the Ariel
Center for Strategic Studies, part of the College of Judea and Samaria. The
contributors to the report included [Res.] Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, the
former director of research and development at Israel's military and Defense
Ministry, Middle East Newsline reported.
The report also urged the Israeli military to reduce the priority assigned to
conventional warfare without impairing its superiority over any enemy
coalition. The report said Israeli strategy must be revised to address the
expanding threats from what it termed terrorism and long-range WMD attacks.
One option, the report said, would be to target an enemy WMD regime.
"The tools for preemptive operations would be novel, diverse and purposeful;
for example, long-range aircraft with appropriate support for derived missions;
long-range high-level intervention ground forces; long-endurance
intelligence-collection systems; long-endurance unmanned air-strike platforms,"
the report said.
"Ranges would be to cities in Libya and Iran, and recognizable nuclear bomb
yields would be at a level sufficient to fully compromise the aggressor's
viability as a functioning state. All enemy targets should be selected with the
view that their destruction would promptly force the enemy to cease all
nuclear/biological/chemical exchanges with Israel."
The report called on Israel to operate a multi-layered ballistic missile
defense system as well as establish a second-strike capability. Such a missile
defense should include a Boost Phase Intercept capability as well as enhanced
real-time intelligence acquisition, interpretation and transmission.
The report said that despite the prospect of a WMD attack, the principal
existential threat to Israel was a conventional war mounted by a coalition of
Arab states along with Iran. But such a war, the report said, could be
facilitated by the development of WMD and result in nonconventional weapons
strikes against the Jewish state.
"Irrespective of its policy on nuclear ambiguity vs. disclosure, Israel will
not be able to endure unless it continues to maintain a credible, secure and
decisive nuclear deterrent alongside a multi-layered anti-missile defense," the
report said.
The report said advanced weaponry would enable Israel to reduce its defense
expenditure while enhancing effectiveness and lethality in conventional
warfare. The report cited the need for increased weapons range, precision,
warhead efficiency; electronic warfare, reduced infrared and radio frequency
signatures.
The report also stressed the need for real time tactical and strategic
intelligence within a command, control, communications, computer and
intelligence [C4I] system. The technologies cited to combat strategic threats
included ballistic missile defense, early-warning satellites, combat unmanned
air vehicles and deep-strike forces.
"There is no operational need for low-yield nuclear weapons geared for actual
battlefield use," the report said. "There is no point in spreading – and
raising costs – Israel's effort on low-yield, tactical nuclear weapons given
the multifaceted asymmetry between Israel and its adversaries."
Israel must also maintain its policy of refusing to acknowledge nuclear
capability, the report said. The report said such a policy should be revised in
the future if an enemy state turns nuclear.
The report asserted that the development of an Arab and Iranian nuclear weapons
program required 20 years while that of a long-range missile would need 12
years. But once development is completed, the report said, the production and
acquisition of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles would entail a short
process. Any country could build an arsenal of 100 atomic bombs within four
years of the assembly of its first nuclear weapon.
"Israel will have to maximize its long-range, accurate, real-time strategic
intelligence," the report said. "Israel will have to maximize the credibility
of its second-strike capability. Israel will have to develop, test, manufacture
and deploy a BPI [Boost Phase Intercept] capability to match the operational
requirements dictated by enemy ballistic missile capacities -- performance and
numbers."
The report also called on Israel to deploy recoverable and non-recoverable
stealth UAVs to suppress enemy air defenses, electronic warfare,
intelligence-gathering and strikes. The military was also urged to develop a
second-strike land or sea nuclear capability.
To finance such an effort, Israel must cooperate with the United States, make
better use of U.S. military aid and eliminate obstacles to U.S.-Israel defense
trade. One option was for Israel to consider revising its defense strategy to
account for an expanded U.S. military presence in the Middle East.
The report urged Israel to seek U.S. cooperation for a joint BPI project,
something the Defense Department has refused. Another option was for the United
States to "participate technologically and financially in Israel's
multi-layered missile defense efforts as fully as possible."
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17 May 2004 06:06:23 PM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040517070100.26979.00001472@mb-m12.aol.com...
Strategists call for Israeli strikes against expanding WMD threat
I hope the Israelis don't take their targeting information from the best at
the CIA.
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| User: "Tadapope" |
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17 May 2004 12:19:43 PM |
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5/20/04 is Ascension Day.
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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17 May 2004 05:35:13 PM |
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In article <20040517070100.26979.00001472@mb-m12.aol.com>, (TonyZ2001) wrote:
Strategists call for Israeli strikes against expanding WMD threat
Geostrategy-Direct.com
Friday, May 14, 2004
TEL AVIV – Leading strategists in Israel have proposed preemptive strikes
against the expanding threat posed by weapons of mass destruction arsenals in
the Middle East.
I think it would be a h-u-g-e mistake for Israel to conduct preemptive strikes
against any muslim countries. HUGE.
Unfortunately, now that they've gone and opened their big, fat mouth, nobody is
gonna think "uknown forces" means anything except Israel. (Which also leaves it
open for al qaeda to do something to one country and let Israel take the blame
for it).
Whadda bunch of maroons! 0-o
Woods
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| User: "TonyZ2001" |
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18 May 2004 10:04:51 AM |
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woodswun@tepidmail.com
wrote:
I think it would be a h-u-g-e mistake for >Israel to conduct preemptive
strikes against any muslim countries. >HUGE.
So you suggest that Israel just sit back and wait for a WMD attack from these
people who are sworn to Israel's destruction?
Tony
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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18 May 2004 11:01:10 AM |
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In article <20040518110451.02178.00000816@mb-m25.aol.com>, (TonyZ2001) wrote:
woodswun@tepidmail.com
wrote:
I think it would be a h-u-g-e mistake for >Israel to conduct preemptive
strikes against any muslim countries. >HUGE.
So you suggest that Israel just sit back and wait for a WMD attack from these
people who are sworn to Israel's destruction?
Why did you cut out the rest of my post which essentially explained it?
Or, if you weren't capable of "getting" it: Israel needs to stop the drama
queen BS and learn to keep their mouths shut when they're merely considering
their alternatives. Blabbing the possibility of pre-emptive strikes only serves
to put possible ideas into the heads of Israel's enemies for frame-ups.
Woods
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