U.S. military advisors are taking ground-war lessons from Iraq to talks with Israel. Whether Israel will take the advice is unclear.
Each time U.S. military and diplomatic officials asked their Israeli counterparts in recent days what the endgame was as warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip, the Israelis said, “Not now.” The time was now to crush the Hamas militant group that made Oct. 7 the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust and figure out the aftermath later, the Israeli officials said, according to sources in the U.S. and Israel familiar with the talks.
“One of the things we’ve learned is how to account for civilians in the battle space,' Austin said. 'In accordance with the law of war, we’ve got to do what’s necessary to protect those civilians.” Two decades ago, the tables were turned. As they were about to invade Iraq in 2003, U.S. military commanders, went to Israel to seek the Israeli military’s know-how on urban warfare in the West Bank, recalled retired Israeli Maj. Gen.
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