All tactics and no strategy is the noise before the defeat
-Sun Tsu

Israel is now in the process of increasing its escalatory moves against Hezbollah in the hope among other things of putting an end to Hezbollah shelling of the northern Israel border area, which depending on who is counting, has displaced between 60,000 and 100,000 settlers. The latest is Israel’s announcement, widely covered in the Western and Middle East press, that it is conducting a limited ground operation in southern Lebanon. Needless to say, an invasion is an invasion. Recall that Hezbollah launched its campaign on this territory on October 8 in solidarity with Hamas and said it would end the strikes if Israel entered into a durable ceasefire with Hamas.

This is not only an overly dynamic situation, as Lambert likes to say, but commentators are also hobbled by the skewed media coverage and the blackout on

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