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    <title>Eran Ortal</title>
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    <description>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.</description>
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      <title>To defend Israel, rearrange the sky</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The recognition that our air superiority is not absolute is dramatic, but must be acknowledged.]]></description>
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      <title>The secret war in the north</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The importance of the weaknesses the enemy is gradually revealing in Israel's air defense system cannot be overstated.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 07:39:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>It’s not a border. It’s a front.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Instead of thinking “defense” versus “maneuver,” “our territory” versus “their territory,” we must think “front” versus “rear.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:54:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War in the north, the defense budget, and strategy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Israel must bring back the hostages, look past the current operations and prepare for the Israeli-Iranian showdown, mainly—but not solely—in Lebanon. Israel needs a strategy, and it needs it now.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:43:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to win the Thirty Years’ War with Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Continuing to pursue “total victory” right now is a dangerous mix of politics and strategy. Victory requires the right combination of spirit, strategy and appropriate preparation.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:09:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gaza reconstruction is the way for Israel to regain initiative</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The rehabilitation of Gaza, as painful as the phrase may be to Israeli ears after the October attack, can and should be Israel’s ultimate weapon against Hamas.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:16:04 GMT</pubDate>
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