Brig. Gen. (res.) Eran Ortal recently retired from military service as commander of the Dado Center for Multidisciplinary Military Thinking. He is a well-known military thinker both in Israel and abroad. His works have been published in The Military Review, War on the Rocks, Small Wars Journal at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford and elsewhere. His book The Battle Before the War (MOD 2022, Hebrew) dealt with the IDF’s need to change, innovate and renew a decisive war approach.
