How Israel became a high-tech military power (and why it failed)

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[@111076tom]

I remember when Caspianreport actually was a quality product... (is this a one man show? why does your political position leak through and ruin the analysis? Well. Life goes on...

[@111076tom]

I mean. Stupidity like "Russia to annex Belarus", "America predicts war with China in 2025" and "Does Afganistan have a future?" (well according to Alexander, Djengis Kahn , the french , the british and the USofA - they dont. But there they are. Proving all you "expert" fools...) And the crown on the turd is of course: "SWEDEN in NATO crush Russia"!!! (just unreal level of stupidity...)

[@111076tom]

I mean, are you really so dumb that you actually believe Iran had only x sentirfuges?

[@fai8t]

@@111076tom 100%

[@fai8t]

8:08 also a lie, look up SR71 in 1973 FUKC YOUR COMMENT CENSORSHYT.

[@MajinLiveTV]

"A tank may take a hill but geopolitical foresight takes the horizon" dang that's the deepest one yet 😂

[@MajinLiveTV]

@LK-vg5kv we are blessed with a lot of things and have a lot going on for ourselves more by accident than anything else. Peter Zeihan probably said this best in his book "accidental superpower".

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@MajinLiveTV Peter Zeihan is a hack who traded in a respectable career in academia (back when he wrote books like Accidental Superpower) for a new career preaching America's infallibility to adoring American fans. He left the more critical environment he began his career in for a much easier to please crowd of non-experts to become a celebrity.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@MajinLiveTV Peter Zeihan is a shill who traded in a respectable career in academia (back when he wrote books like Accidental Superpower) for a new career preaching America's infallibility to adoring American fans. He left the more critical environment he began his career in for a much easier to please crowd of non-experts to become a celebrity.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@MajinLiveTV Peter Zeihan is a sellout who traded in a respectable career in academia (back when he wrote books like Accidental Superpower) for a new career preaching America's infallibility to adoring American fans. He left the more critical environment he began his career in for a much easier to please crowd of non-experts to become a celebrity.

[@MajinLiveTV]

@ArawnOfAnnwn don't necessarily disagree thats why I recommended that book and not his others

[@aunnaqvi3133]

"No other country lives on the brink of destruction" Bro just ignores all destabilised countries in the middle east and africa

[@rogershaw421]

Facts💯

[@rogershaw421]

And South America👍🏿

[@TheBobiaan]

Made me raise an eyebrow as well

[@AdamNoizer]

For real. Not to take away from Israel’s situation in the late 20th century, but there are a whole bunch of countries in MENA constantly getting invaded by their neighbours, or collapsing due to regime change and internal coups.

[@King_Scorpia_IV]

They’re struggling, but they’re not surrounded by religious extremists who wouldn’t hesitate to kill all the Jews in Israel in a heartbeat if they could.

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

As a colossal failure myself, this video really appealed to me

[@LuKiSCraft]

LOL

[@Sebastian-hc8rj]

why is the video a failure? i dont understand

[@TrassseB]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Andrew-rd9zq]

Well at least you know you're a loser 👍

[@LuKiSCraft]

@@Sebastian-hc8rj not the video. Israel's military. Look at the video title.

[@ziqi92]

As a wise man once said, “Wars are fought with weapons, but they are won by men.”

[@maaziy_ghaziyIYI]

And Israel does not have men.

[@harrypmay]

@@maaziy_ghaziyIYI they have men and women and the largest active army in the Middle East which is why none of the Arab states are getting involved.

[@bhines7901]

The IDF are filled with warriors 🇮🇱

[@sagimichael7993]

​@@maaziy_ghaziyIYI Is that why they are always wiping the floor with arabs?

[@thegoldenboah3343]

@@bhines7901 The IDF are filled with terrorists and criminals*

[@fooman1188]

And get ready in the comments section.

[@magnem1043]

ADL was here

[@jamese5936]

lol...its gonna be a warzone!

[@european-one]

Hi, I've got your order of 100 hazmat suits. Where do you want them?

[@williamdaniels9728]

AND WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!

[@TRYCLOPS1]

@@jamese5936 All anti-Israel’s are crying “bias” already lol. I think it was done on purpose in order to have more flexibility to be more bias in the next video of this conflict against Israel but that’s just me 🤷‍♂️

[@American-Templar]

"The more crutches you have, the more it hurts when they're kicked out from under you."

[@LucasSantos-si4nd]

Thatcher, Rainbow 6 siege

[@RUTHLESSambition5]

Hamas has shown the IDF is in noway a top notch military outfit. They seem to be clueless. Can't find any of it's people and had the most successful military op ever committed against them

[@khlaps]

I don’t see what that has to do with Israel. Is this about Palestine since it gets more aid then it’s own GDP?

[@LucasSantos-si4nd]

@khlaps It is a reference to R6 that applies to Israel. Israel over-relied on technology to give them an edge. Thus, the Thatcher quote applies as Israel used technology as a crutch to lean on.

[@khlaps]

On the contrary, I think technology is the most reliable tool we have and Israel’s problem was underestimating their enemy.

[@PizzasBear]

The Yom Kipur War was very similar to this one. Both had walls deemed impenetrable, both had intelligence failures, and in both the Israelis thought their technological advantages (air or general) were too vast for anything to happen.

[@abdursiddiq7090]

and both occurred 50 years apart.

[@dankopatrik5579]

Yet they won

[@anton2417]

yet they wont that war and will win this one with far less troops lost than their opponent.

[@Ilyak1986]

@@anton2417 even when this war is won, the lives lost are far, far too many. Just like 9/11, I'm not sure 10/7/23 (or 2023-10-07 for you %Y-%m-%d nerds like me) will ever be forgotten. The lives lost that day cannot be lost in vain.

[@ethancohen12]

That’s the point as to why Hamas chose that date… the differences between the two is that on Yom Kippur, they attacked military infrastructure, on Oct. 7 Hamas attacked civilians. This makes it a whole different ballgame in terms of retaliation

[@tedkaczynski-sw4qk]

"There is no invincible army" - J.V.Stalin

[@yatzyart]

easy for him to say ;]

[@War4Skills]

'There is no such thing as a famine.' - JV Stalin

[@Ar1AnX1x]

@@War4Skills Joe Van-Stalin?

[@Lookmaxxed_Pikachu_69]

​@@Ar1AnX1xJoe Vama Stalin

[@ramiromontecinos8759]

​@@Ar1AnX1x Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.

[@awesomehpt8938]

The thing is is that you can have all the fancy tech and weapons in your military but if the guys in charge take their eye off the ball it all means nothing. If Israel didn’t divert so much attention and forces away from Gaza and towards the West Bank then the attack on October 7th wouldn’t have nearly been as devastating.

[@janaldrichlandicho3560]

yeap they overextend their security forces too much and focus way too much on the west bank when they should have focus on the Gaza since they relied to much on their high tech border wall with Gaza this a view point from a civilian like me

[@yakov95000]

The thing is that just 20-25 years ago Israel had the ability to be on all fronts easily(inside Lebanon,Gaza,West Bank)with thousands more tanks and hundreds of more Artillery and much more people,the Army was intentionally cut to minimal size by politicians.

[@MrProIsrael]

that is far from the truth tbh, they moved about 50-100 troops from gaza to the west bank that weekend. Israel and IDF failed on understanding the intentions of the enemy, in the fight itself the IDF is doing some historic level winning in the gaza strip.

[@teaser6089]

@@yakov95000 They still have that capability if it is required. Don't forget Israel can call up around ~5 million reserve soldiers. Such an army when used defensively would by conventional military doctrine and understanding require an army 4 times its size in order to defeat. The Muslim nations would require to raise an army the size of the US army during WW2 in order to defeat Israel, they don't have the money, nor the trained men in order to do this. Let alone the fact that other Western nations wouldn't stand by doing nothing lol.

[@user-gt5me3nf6b]

5 million? huh , Israel has 1,499,998 males, age 17-49 available for military service and 1,499,998 males, age 17-49 (2016) fit for military service, but just reservists right now there are only 400k, and also i agree arab nations wontt defeat israel but rather it will be inhouse fighting which destroys israel

[@kiky2232]

Just another example how greatest strenght becomes greatest weakness.

[@wazzup233]

Quite true, especially on this day and age, the war is evolving and not becoming stagnant especially if you deal on the so called "psychological warfare". Now if Israel won the war against the Hamas or any Islamic terror groups or onto her Arab neighbors through real combat or battle but they'd severely suffer from the psychological warfare and they lost it and again, Israel would face an uncertain future for their country both on economic, political and military. This is what happen to the United States when they'd invaded Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan for the past 50 years and the US had never learned their lesson. The same situation might happen to Israel and even to Ukraine right now. We'll blame to President Biden later but now I would like to share this one question that I'd asked to an AI generated tool known as Poe which is owned by a social media app called Quora and I'd asked him on what if both Israel and Ukraine would loose their Psy-war against their enemies in spite of their high tech warfare that been use and won their real battles or wars and this is his answer and it's up to you if you'll believe the answer or not: The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, as well as the conflict between Israel and Hamas, are complex and multifaceted. While psychological warfare certainly plays a role, it is just one aspect among many in these conflicts. It is important to note that I cannot provide real-time analysis or predict the future, so I can only offer a general perspective based on historical knowledge up to September 2021. If Russia and Hamas were to achieve significant success in their psychological warfare against Ukraine and Israel, respectively, it could have various consequences for the losing sides: Ukraine: If Russia were to win the psychological warfare against Ukraine, it could lead to a further erosion of public morale and support for the Ukrainian government's efforts to resist Russian aggression. This could potentially weaken the resolve of the Ukrainian population, negatively affecting military recruitment and overall national unity. Additionally, successful psychological warfare by Russia might lead to increased divisions within Ukrainian society, undermining efforts to maintain stability and resist Russian influence. Israel: If Hamas were to win the psychological warfare against Israel, it could lead to increased fear, anxiety, and demoralization among the Israeli population. This could potentially strain public support for the Israeli government's actions and policies, making it more challenging to sustain military operations and maintain national unity. Successful psychological warfare by Hamas might also result in international pressure on Israel to change its approach or policies, affecting its diplomatic standing. It's important to emphasize that the outcome of these conflicts is determined by numerous factors beyond psychological warfare alone. Military capabilities, political dynamics, international support, economic factors, and other strategic considerations all play significant roles. Psychological warfare can certainly influence public opinion and shape the narrative, but it is just one part of a broader conflict. It is also worth noting that conflicts often have unpredictable and dynamic outcomes. The effectiveness of psychological warfare can vary, and its impact may be mitigated or countered by other factors and strategies employed by the opposing sides. Therefore, it is challenging to make definitive predictions about the consequences of winning or losing psychological warfare in these ongoing conflicts.

[@Eged282]

You must be a wise one..

[@lofm6213]

What if they knew about it beforehand and just let it happen?

[@54032Zepol]

​@@lofm6213 exactly 💯, it wasn't a false flag operation but the isrealis authorities let is happen so they would have any excuse to turn the city of Gaza into the worlds largest parking lot.

[@TheUltimateOpportunist]

​@@lofm6213 I believe that to be the case. Netanyahu has backed Hamas for years.

[@Ynhockey]

There is no question that October 7 was a colossal failure by the Israeli military and establishment, but the technological failure is overstated. The failure was mainly conceptual: the establishment never could have imagined that Hamas would risk its very existence and everything it had built up over 15+ years, just for a few hours of senseless slaughter. The border forces were not insufficient because the IDF was turned into a small army - it's actually not meaningfully smaller than at any time in the past 20 years. The reason was that the army just released everyone home for the holidays and diverted some of the remainder, because who would think that Hamas would do such a thing? This was the conceptual mistake. Despite ample warnings from the field, there wasn't a single person in the establishment who actually believed that this would lead to an attack. This is why the border fence was extremely hard to penetrate below ground, where Hamas could have dug covertly, but was very easy to destroy above ground, where no one could imagine Hamas coming. The problem for Israel's enemies however, is that this trick only works once, for at least 20-25 years. On the other hand, the cutting-edge technology works for a long time. Since October 8, Israel has lost just above 200 troops in the fighting, and only 150 or so to enemy fire. Hamas lost 10,000. Sure, the IDF troops have air and artillery support; but Hamas has an underground tunnel network, prepared for an attack for years, and Israel is prevented from fully utilizing its weapons due to international pressure on civilian casualties, among which Hamas hide. The groundbreaking technology is what has allowed Israel to make relatively quick progress with relatively few casualties.

[@srafid2000]

You are presenting the casualty figure published by the Z'nist regime, which is entirely inaccurate. The Z'nist regime announces the deaths of senior officers only, not the regular soldiers. And the death toll of Palestinian resistance fighters is exaggerated to please the subjects of Z'nist regime, while 15,000 children have been killed by indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.

[@extrapolate]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@srafid2000you’re presenting the figure of the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas, which is entirely inaccurate. The Islamist regime publishes false numbers and has been exposed for not only completely making up the numbers, publishing them seconds after an attack which makes no sense since it would take hours if not days to give a reliable number, but also dressing up their terrorists in civilian clothes as shown by dozens of videos. Daily reminder that if the bombing of Gaza was indiscriminate the deaths would be in the hundreds of thousands at best. Try less Al Jazeera and other Qatari propaganda before opening your mouth next time?

[@UnknownFromNow]

@@srafid2000This is highly inaccurate😂

[@user-sl3fv8tn9u]

Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were a part of USSR.

[@Channel-qe5pk]

Quality suffers as they devote more resources to kissing Israel's ass.

[@asipalacios8701]

i work in apple and i used to work for NVIDIA from 2015 to 2019, i can tell you, all the new innovations in the industry coming straight from tel aviv.

[@youssefbouzi988]

Jewish brain is unmatchable

[@menotfunnyclips8982]

how about china?

[@SamtheIrishexan]

I work for an Israeli tech firm and yeah, they are pretty advanced with the systems we use.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

​@@menotfunnyclips8982what about China

[@tFighterPilot]

Some are from Haifa, actually. (That's where Intel is)

[@jmdoza3938]

Here's how i see it in regards to technology. Just because the tractor has plowed the field does not necessarily mean you got rid of it's weeds.

[@tricyclejesus4572]

Its

[@harvardsmithdeangelo6905]

Ah yes, all animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others! Those other people are just weeds! You should feel genuine shame.

[@JuliusGalacki]

I don't think you intended this but the problem with your metaphor is that you have just compared human beings (the Palestinians) with weeds.

[@machinedude9386]

​@@JuliusGalacki bruh, its a metaphor, if you take it literally, it clearly flew over your head.

[@markallen6433]

​@@machinedude9386obviously the real comparison is blood thirsty locusts 🙄

[@chandlerwhite8302]

This is the same situation the US found itself in with Vietnam and the Soviet Union found in Afghanistan. All the high tech stuff is great, but in the end you still have to go dig the enemy out of the tunnels and houses to win.

[@jonatand2045]

Technology helps with that a lot. It would also enable the coalition to completely block Houthi ports, but they have gone soft.

[@WillyKling]

Funny how super powers always lose to people in rags and flip flops.

[@chandlerwhite8302]

@@WillyKling Because they are always too soft.

[@WillyKling]

@@chandlerwhite8302If winning means you have to act like Israel, have you not already lost?

[@vera02]

@@WillyKling Why do you think the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258?

[@johnwestermark5649]

"It's always something" Quote: Rosann Roseanna Danna

[@user-bp9wo4qr8o]

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

[@christianhegemann1911]

Not only the US. Also from Germany came a lot from the beginning. Since 1950, first a lot money and later high tech weapons, like eg 6 high tech fuel cell subs, able to carry nuclear missiles, made in Germany. Between Adenauer and Ben Gurion was a secrete agreement of 200 million Deutsch Mark per year paid from Germany to Israel. In todays money its like abt 20 billion € per year.

[@donaldseigel4101]

Germany did pay reparations to Israel, but they did not get weapons until decades later, which they purchased. Most of the Reparations money (Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany) that was paid did not go to the arms industry, it went to settling the hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors who lived in Israel, and to the WJC (world Jewish Congress) to pay to Holocaust survivors. It was also used to start cities, schools, hospitals, and most of all for the agriculture area to provide jobs in farming, food processing, and manufacturing. Also it was 200 million Deutsch Mark per year back when the German Economy was not good, so it was about 5 Marks to the dollar exchange rate.....so it was definitely not worth 20 billion a year "Despite the protests, the agreement was signed in September 1952, and West Germany paid Israel a sum of 3 billion marks (around 714 million USD according to 1953-1955 conversion rates[14]) over the next fourteen years; 450 million marks were paid to the World Jewish Congress. The payments were made to the State of Israel as the heir to those victims who had no surviving family. The money was invested in the country's infrastructure and played an important role in establishing the economy of the new state. Israel at the time faced a deep economic crisis and was heavily dependent on donations by foreign Jews, and the reparations, along with these donations, would help turn Israel into an economically viable country."

[@donaldseigel4101]

PS My Grandfather was stationed in Germany right after the war, and I was stationed in Germany in the early 1990's.

[@christianhegemann1911]

@@donaldseigel4101 Thats correct.

[@christianhegemann1911]

@@donaldseigel4101 I meant the purchasing equivalent or purchasing power of a Deutsch Mark or US$ was much higher in the 50th last century than today, thats why that amount. The secrete agreement that time, is today no more secrete, since opening the archives I think in the 90th.

[@donaldseigel4101]

@@christianhegemann1911 Yes those archives as well as the official N-zi records, were opened in the last 30 years.

[@alecfriedman2599]

It feels like a massive stretch to say that because Israel failed on October 7th their whole military concept has failed. Within 48 hours of the attack they had Hamas pushed back within Gaza. And it also is extremely untrue to say the iron dome was completely overwhelmed. The number of Israelis killed by rocket fire from Gaza is at best 10-15 people. The iron dome only shoots down missiles that are going to hit civilian areas. So between the rockets that missed populated areas and the 10-20% of rockets that fell short in Gaza the iron dome was able to pretty effectively handle the barrage. Not perfectly, but it’s unfair to expect missile defense to be perfect at the scale it was asked to that day. But you are spot on about complacency. When I was in the IDF in 2015 you could feel it. Unfortunately it usually takes events like Oct 7th to wake people up.

[@RT-lh5sj]

​@@R_-kd1brLmao you probably never served. Opinion null and void.

[@maximusfreeman7140]

Tel Aviv gets the latest weapons free of charge, billions of dollars in cash, and if needed, the entire US military at its service for free, plus a veto at the UN security council whenever needed. So Israel is indeed a superpower

[@tFighterPilot]

So far the US army hasn't helped Israel in this war. They brought some ships which did nothing and influenced nothing, only to move them away later on.

[@maximusfreeman7140]

@tFighterPilot Operating an Aircraft Carrier Strike Group costs more than $6.5 million a day; the US committed to using two of them to defend Israel, for a total of + $13 million a day (nearly $2 billion since October 2023); add to that the cost of missiles used to intercept missiles headed toward Israel; airstrikes in Yemen; the Congress passed a $14.5 billion military aid package for Israel on top of the 300 billions Israel already received!! That's nothing for you? A classic case of ungratefulness.

[@JuliusGalacki]

​@@tFighterPilotwrong. US is literally aiding in targeting. And do you think Tower 22 is doing at the border of Syria and Jordan? The US has (illegally) troops both in a d around Israel.

[@whocares5108]

​@@JuliusGalackiBut why are they there? They're there because the tail wags the dog!

[@yorgenibnstrangle3072]

​@tFighterPilot are you kidding? Isreals entire military budget is in US aid. All of your ammunition is made in the US too. The US is also operating a carrier strike group in the red sea and air strikes all across the region. Plus all the vetos in the UN

[@crystallineentity]

Very good video man thank you, nice and balanced

[@ayoub8109]

not balanced its pro Israel

[@nathaniellasley3028]

As always your analysis was excellent, thank you.

[@ayoub8109]

its pro israel calling the illegal settlement in west bank just settlement

[@danisraelmalta]

its note mentioning that US aid can only be spent on US equipment built in the US.... so, it can be used to buy/finance israeli made systems.

[@teaser6089]

Yeah it's actually smart spending by the US, cause it means they give Israel money, which Israel then spends on weapons produced by American companies, which then pay tax money back to the US government and the money that is left gets spent inside of the US, meaning the money never leaves the US economy and only makes it stronger.

[@maximr6576]

Yes it is smart and mutually benefitial

[@dannyzero692]

Don't forget that the US and its ally also receive Israeli tech either for free or at massive discounted price like the Iron Fist and Trophy system. Not to mention the countless civilian innovations made by Israelis for US corporations like Intel and others.

[@JoeRogansForehead]

@@dannyzero692and half the nsa cyber tools leaked by Wikileaks

[@ismailnyeyusof3520]

5:43 “..the Jewish tradition of scholarship” I like that statement. I wish more countries, especially my own, have a tradition of scholarship.

[@ofer3000]

What country you are from?

[@joyalshaji2730]

@@ofer3000 some failing muslim country

[@ismailnyeyusof3520]

@@joyalshaji2730 unfortunately you are not far from the truth.

[@danieldpa8484]

My home country of Poland needs to learn from the Israel experience and be more independent in the weapons production capacity.

[@DSweashox]

Buddy, Poland needs to learn from Poland not from an apartheid religious state.

[@marina12345678911000]

​@@DSweashox So Israel is a religious state, but Poland is the one that banned abortion for religious reasons. What kind of upside-down world do you live in? Reconsider consuming Anti-Israeli propaganda that portrays Israel as apartheid, genocide, and baby killers; it is detrimental to your cognitive abilities.

[@extrapolate]

@@DSweashoxdo you even read or know the meaning of the words you type? Israel isn’t a religious state, it’s for the most part secular state with some exceptions like marriages and divorces which are handled by respective religious authorities of each group. Apartheid is segregation based on race, Arab citizens of Israel are not only not segregated but are part of the Supreme Court, parliament, make up a huge part of the medical workforce proportional to the amount of citizens. Try less TikTok influencers to get your information maybe?

[@someone5574]

😂😂😂😂 yeah yeah whatever you say merc​@@extrapolate

[@douchebagg7]

​@@extrapolate yeah secular my ass!

[@shawnhtpc2271]

Why was Copy Editor Antony Murrell's name blurred out until the very last moment of the credits?

[@rushmore100]

Every civilisation needs a refresh or wake up call. This is it.

[@54032Zepol]

Exactly 💯 Islam has never been compatible with western teachings of separation of church and state, secular governments and coexistence with other cultures/religions

[@Cecil_Augus]

But a handy help by the strongest potency in the world does help a little, don't ya think?

[@LuKiSCraft]

@@Cecil_Augus What is the "strongest potency"? 5,000 scud missiles?

[@Cecil_Augus]

@@LuKiSCraft My @ss farting

[@LuKiSCraft]

@@Cecil_Augus Is that where the scud missiles came from lmao

[@davidbeare730]

Great information and insight! I agree overconfidence was a problem, but corruption and creeping tribalism/extreemism also undermined Israel's love of education and progress.

[@natedubin8944]

I don't think you know anything about Israel

[@BBBrasil]

I always thought Caspian report to be a good source of analysis. I am not sure anymore. See, I happen to know well what happened in my country, and I ask myself, if he is wrong here, maybe he is wrong elsewhere, too. It wasn't technology the problem, or hubris on the use of technology. It was the false premises, a political misconception, that lead to 7/10. Netanyahu is the designer of this misconception. People inside the intelligence alerted for the upcoming tragedy, but the leadership was convinced that a "fat" Hamas would not attack, they would prefer skirmishes and money better than a war. Units on the military were dismantled, such as Israel has now only one helicopter wing, instead of the 3 it had, and now is buying in urgent purchase some 20 or so. Soldiers were transferred from Gazan borders to other regions because they believed maximum of 4 attack points in the region, so on and so forth...

[@yakov95000]

It was this misconception that created the condition where there was no force to "answer" on all fronts without the reserve,he is 100% right.Israel kept a sadak of nothing for years in Gaza I served there and everything was autonomic,the fact that they didn't prepare for Hamas to attack doesn't explain why there weren't reserves to answer in the first hours(they all went to the North or West bank),the problem definitely was over reliance on tech instead of boots on the ground.

[@harvardsmithdeangelo6905]

Netan is just a tool, there has been a singular anti-human driving force behind this for hundreds of years.

[@01FNG]

All those actions can be explained by Hubris enable by a sense of technological superiority. I am sure you yourself before Oct 7. wouldn't imagine Hamas was capable of breaching the wall and neutralizing so many tanks and soldiers in the aftermath.

[@ftheengineer]

See, you seem to be a little bit confused. It doesn't matter where the soldier were, how many helicopters you had and so on. This analysis says that there was false impression of security, that is, people thought that the country is so secure that Hamas just won't attack. And he is right - the fact that the soldiers were not there, or there were not enough rockets means that even the military had this impression. They thought that they are secure just because they have the technology, which is never the case. You're saying yourself that the leadership was convinced that Hamas won't attack, but act like leadership is not Israel?

[@ShadowWizard123]

​@01FNG it's a wall. Not some sort of magical barrier impossible to circumvent.

[@Liam-pl7rx]

Quite enjoyable and informative. Thank you for your incite.

[@Arcticwhir]

10:35 this tells you everything.

[@FR4NKY666]

@14:14

[@wassum100]

Interesting! Thanks Shirvan

[@nowayoutalive8732]

Another great video!

[@lorq3370]

Caspian Report: Always a unique turn of words during its excellent geopolitical analysis.

[@mrdiego4368]

Israel has the same issue that the US had after defeating Iraq. They can obliterate any standard army but struggling against cheap weapons being used by men that are willing to die for an ideology.

[@davidfu8174]

Can you do an analysis of Hamas and their tactics?

[@mfcorp9608]

No - he doesnt get paid by Hamas

[@infidelheretic923]

He doesn't want to draw attention to them. It might make the audience sympathetic towards the Jews.

[@mfcorp9608]

⁠@@infidelheretic923Not true Look at his previous videos, he is more than ready to be sympathetic towards them

[@infidelheretic923]

@mfcorp9608 I believe he is desperately trying to appear neutral. But he is a Muslim. And thus unable to escape his religion's biases. He analyzes Israel's moves and admires their cleverness. But deep down he wants them to lose.

[@mfcorp9608]

@@infidelheretic923He seems biased in the other direction in some of his videos. He has a video a few months back on the Israel Palestine conflict and the history he presented was painfully pro Israel. He gave the common western story of the conflict where the story starts after WW2. Informed people know the story actually starts in the late 1800s. If you start from here the story is very different to the western pro Israel story.

[@OrthoAutist]

This isn't really convincing me that we need to send them billions every year in fact it's an even better reason why we shouldn't

[@libgapper9761]

Israel serves the u.s in so many ways your mind couldn't even begin to understand it

[@MrMaximkozin]

Wow! I was in the Israeli Air Force and I had no idea they used toy planes for spying back in the 60's. That info is hard to find today.

[@CraigTheBrute-yf7no]

You killed babies?

[@extrapolate]

@@CraigTheBrute-yf7nothat’s Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations, wrong side.

[@CraigTheBrute-yf7no]

@@extrapolate currently 15,000 babies and counting. All videos available on telegram, livestream in many cases.

[@r.a.8582]

It is interesting how you keep saying the word "indigenous" when you speak of Israel!

[@WillyKling]

Many have changed their Polish and Russian sounding names to appear more native to the region, including their PM, Mileikovsky.

[@geoffkelly66]

they are from israel, arabs are from arabia ... you obviously believe the rubbish AJ feed you

[@user-vp8cr2uh4k]

You think being a jew means believing in something. In fact, it is BEING something. Someone. One of a tribe. Judaism is a surviving ethnicity which believes in the Torah and is made of jew people. Yes. Indigenous.

[@WillyKling]

@@user-vp8cr2uh4kMost are from Poland and Russia and have no genetic connection to the region. If you define yourself and act as a group, you will be percieved as a group. And that is not positive if you have personally done nothing wrong.

[@user-vp8cr2uh4k]

@@WillyKling its not most but half and youre talking about the ashkenazi which are generally speaking european jews. And how does that have anything to say about lack of genetic connection? Do you know what jew diasphora is? Do some research

[@ignatcommaignatov]

Thank you for this great film!

[@ciceroalexandar6184]

Why West Germany's support is overlooked?

[@jakejones6056]

Seriously. Funded by guilt money.

[@the-quintessenz]

Most of it is inofficial and indirectly through discounts.

[@yzdatabase4175]

Ah yes. West Germany.

[@Critt_Ari]

West Germany itself was rebuilt by american money though 😅

[@yzdatabase4175]

@@Critt_Ari lol

[@gmeister3022]

I do agree that the over reliance on technology was a massive strategical blunder when examining the case against Hamas, but I don’t think it’s fair to say that Israel is “more dressed for parade” in general. If this was the case, Hamas would’ve still held Gaza, which today is almost entirely manned by the IDF. Technology does win wars and builds empires. If it doesn’t, explain the west conquering pretty much the entire world with guns and fleets…

[@cgthe2nd335]

Just when u thought bias was bad... hold my beer said Caspian

[@Hollywood2021]

Yeah…his accurate logic is so annoying when you’re a delusional sheep who supports terrorists

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@hasanitto]

I greatly appreciate the informative quality of this video. Thank you for providing such a masterpiece

[@kiritugeorge4684]

On principle, indigenous and Israel are two words that should never be put together.

[@samym1694]

Imagine with all the Tech like Drones,Tanks & Jets that worth Billions of Money, it still did not intimidate the poorly equipped Insurgents.

[@chris-qo1nt]

Love the opening parables, you guys do that the best

[@evanmedi6144]

they are the best i swear

[@user-kq5ke5yb6k]

"Dressed for the parade?" That sounds more like Russia or China.

[@infidelheretic923]

Agreed. The IDF is more like a SWAT team. Where other militaries are artillery brigrades.

[@johnsch1988]

20 years in Afghanistan 😂

[@Keithmwango]

Was it Russian and china in Afghanistan for twenty years or America ?

[@PurpleCh4lk]

@@Keithmwango Russia and/or USSR was there for a decade or so and did the exact same thing as USA so basically fuck all and armed the locals :'D Can't remeber if China has plans to try it too. Maybe in Africa.

[@maquacr7014]

Cope CIA bot. Western weapons are tried against 3rd world millitaries. And they are expensive as hell and required high maintenance cost.

[@MofMCR]

No matter how good are the military equipment and the electronics they are still useless if the humans choose to ignore the warning signs,

[@iruhura]

Any State would have a strong military if they had that much support in terms of Aid like Israel has from the US. Iran has a better military industry despite sanctions and sabotage.

[@Lyferemixed]

There was intelligence from female officers on the border that were ignored. Also, many of the troops guarding the border were moved to protect west Bank settlements per order of the government, so there is that too. It's a combination of these three reasons and possibly more

[@Pieate_Club]

Your remark on the movement of forces to the West Bank was proven false.

[@SusCalvin]

I'm always worried whenever someone gets the clever idea to press the armed forces into secondary and tertiary functions. It looks real tough to make the army do riot suppression and watch over train stations, suppress riots and search for drugs but then that becomes those unit's job. People can't train and outfit for everything. I'm not a fan of France's Operation Sentinel either, where they have small foot patrols of troops moving around on the subway and sitting on landmarks. Any soldiers you want to have sitting on the Louvre must be taken from somewhere else.

[@sankss1684]

That's vox propaganda

[@laminarflowone]

Not really, first of all, Vox is not really an investigative journalistic endeavor so I don't trust them, but this was widely reported in Haaretz and the Wall Street Journal. The basis was formed from leaked government documents

[@laminarflowone]

Not really, first of all, Vox is not really an investigative journalistic endeavor so I don't trust them, but this was widely reported in Haaretz and the Wall Street Journal. The basis was formed from leaked government documents

[@transvestosaurus878]

"Welcome to Palestine Park. We spared no expense!"

[@MultiSciGeek]

Why are all the graphics so blurry, like I'm under water??

[@baspagrey1545]

Because you forgot to go to the optician

[@garbuz3324]

11:06 It should be noted that the Israeli government does not sit in Tel Aviv, but in Jerusalem

[@HankOneill-md9pf]

Any good story is worth embelishing.

[@SegzWithTedCruz]

Correction: In every one of the Arab wars, Israels capabilities and number of *soldiers* and the quality of hardware was much, much better than the Arab countries. It was not an underdog story. It was lopsided in favor of Israel.

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Interesting video.

[@Dillonmathers]

The map at 5:12 shows Iran as a country of NATO supplying weapons to Israel. Who woulda thunk?? 😂

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

Well technically they did send them a lot of missiles...

[@MultiSciGeek]

Probably because the Revolution Iran was a US ally?

[@Faris_9111]

During the reign of the Shah (the monarchy), Iran was an ally of Israel and was the second country in the Middle East to recognize Israel after Turkey.

[@amitbechor7575]

As an Israeli, for many years now it seems as if the military elite fell in love with the idea of containing problems instead of dealing with them, just as we did in the 70s, and we we believed them because we had now reason no to, and now we all cringe together of how stupid they all were. Now we are pretty much back to the good old days of total destruction of the enemy, and hopefully we won't be stupid for a long time to come.

[@Tommykey07]

I also get the sense that Netanyahu and the Israeli right wing used Hamas as a convenient bogeyman to undermine a two state solution, provided Hamas kept its actions within certain boundaries. Unfortunately, Hamas didn't get the memo and overstepped those bounds on 10/7.

[@amitbechor7575]

@@Tommykey07 everyone hates the notion of giving them a state, think what would have happend if they had the west bank like the have Gaza. it's not bibi, litterly everyone in Israel who isn't a nut job hates that idea

[@SusCalvin]

@@amitbechor7575 What would you be ready to give Fatah, or are they just expected to be a vichy palestine forever? The West Bank is comparatively quiet, with low-intensity skirmishes between settlers and locals. Right now I'm more curious if Israel will take the step closer to the turkish definiton of democracy. And just how many fronts Netanyahu's partners would want him to open.

[@maximr6576]

​@@Tommykey072 states is not a solution, just a pipe dream

[@thetsfa3307]

west bank is just as bad as gaza for israel. it is only a matter of time before hamas will be the group controlling west bank?@@SusCalvin

[@robertaskazdanas1915]

What is Ammam?

[@Pafemanti]

Amman? The capital of the country of Jordan?

[@baspagrey1545]

RAAAHHHHH JORDAN MENTIONEDDD💥💥💥 WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY REFUGEES🫤💥💥WHAT IS A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTT

[@adamcheklat7387]

Aman is Israel’s military intelligence agency.

[@Muslim_israeli]

It is an Israeli intelligence unit that advises the Prime Minister on how to conduct security against threats in the environment

[@user-kn1uo9uy2i]

They fail and will fail again because is God's will and because the animosity towards their fellow humans being whom the see as trash , treat them as trash and total disrespect.

[@HollowSleep]

Ty

[@Nostr00]

7:04 HOW did they do it?

[@nicbahtin4774]

social cohesion, just like we had collectivized farming in the kibbutz without violence and seizures like in China or the USSR.

[@anchorread68]

@@nicbahtin4774 didn't Kibbutz in west bank a form of seizures of property?

[@genuscorvid]

@@anchorread68 They don't consider stealing from palestinians as stealing because in their view, palestinians are inferior

[@mightybagrutlord]

Show me another army that fought in a dense urban area, with 2 milion civilians around, against an insane terror tunnel system AND got that much progress in less than 4 months. Mosul was far smaller than gaza, had a quarter of the terrorists (that didn't build up for it for nearly 20 years) and it took 9 months.

[@GeorgeJoubert-id2cv]

What progress? The IDF cannot operate anywhere even in North Gaza unchallenged

[@abdullak7023]

Progress? How many Israelis did they release? How many children did they k*ll? How many civilians were unalived by dogs? Are you insane?

[@hpi6080]

never heard of the vietnam war? they had tunnels aswell...

[@thetsfa3307]

yea and they lost. thats what he is saying@@hpi6080

[@mossiemo8929]

Considering the genocide it had to enact on a defenseless people, the minimal military gains Israel has achieved is quite staggering. Even by Israels own account, this operation has been a failure.

[@WhiteManInAVan]

Also Israel hasn't really had any major fights since they broke the ceasefire agreement during the First Arab-Israel war that allowed them to win, otherwise they would have been destroyed.

[@A123A56D]

You forgot the billion of dollars of military aid from US.

[@Dieter11]

When a video about the genocide committed by Azerbaijan?

[@keichu3830]

Never😂

[@ems4884]

How about proving it was a genocide first in the international courts?

[@mnd7381]

Well this dude himself is from Azerbaijan, so ....

[@KhalDrogo493]

This is not an alternative history channel.

[@hijazzains]

How many childrn did azerbaijan murder?

[@omarma7815]

explain to me why is it that when you show a map of israel you show them including the lands they claim is theirs like golan and west bank and gaza but when you show palestine you only show the west bank and gaza instead of all of palestine

[@junaidsofi760]

This guy is torturously biased towards Israel. Don't expect anything better. I've unsubbed a long time ago.

[@shalevlevi6856]

Because there is no such thing as a Palestinian people, a people without cultural characteristics, a people without history, a people without anything It's simply amazing to see how every group that aspires to become a nation is given legitimacy in this and basically cancels the entire existence of the Jews by the very fact that they are a people and a nation within Israel

[@porthose2002]

Hi Shirvan. Just curious. What is the significance of the ship shadow in your logo. It looks familiar, but I can't place it.

[@justrecorded4u984]

Most likely: "Caspian Sea", "ship's sail reminds feather"

[@Basement_crusader]

It’s the numbers station, Mason

[@baspagrey1545]

It's a chess piece it's called a rook not a ship

[@lexprontera8325]

The overlap between the two chess pieces happens to resemble the silhouette of a sailing ship, I now notice, but that's purely by accident, it's not intentional.

[@porthose2002]

@@lexprontera8325 Ah. Yea, I see that now. What I'd interpreted as a sailing ship is actually the back side of the Knight. Thanks!

[@karzan995]

Content starts at 03:15

[@arnoldmbuthia2687]

the israeli defence forces is, to a large extent, supported by the USA. to a tune of billions of dollars a year.

[@mogts]

and industrial espionage.

[@InternetLaser]

It is a bit of a stretch to call 1.2% of Israeli GDP and 16% of the IDF budget "a large extent".

[@jmano1]

Egypt also supported with billions. Saudi Arabia spends around $70B per year. They have accomplished nothing like Israel.

[@MyVanir]

@@InternetLaser 16% of the ADI budget is a pretty big deal.

[@InternetLaser]

@@MyVanir Sure it's not insignificant, but it's not like Israel couldn't fund their own military if we stopped supporting them, they're already 84% of the way there.

[@user-dj2sn8sf5x]

Wow that’s a really long way of saying completely due to US aid

[@deehazsnow3178]

😅 apparently

[@maplesyrup_productions]

“Indigenous Israeli Defence Industry” that’s a good joke lol

[@amirbabfish]

you're either a good neighbor, or you'll spend your whole life in fear, paying for security

[@Joseph_ebuka]

Isreal is a good neighbour but the countries around it are fueled with Islamic hate against it

[@John3.36]

Even though Israel gets money for their arms industry it is nothing compared to all of the Islamic nations that surround it combined. Some of the more rich countries send in arms to all surrounding Israel hostile states. This should be considered as well.

[@WillyKling]

All Islamic countries are ruled by puppets. And that is a good thing for Israel.

[@zaheedmoola1073]

Let's not forget the excessive funds received from US taxpayers.

[@WillyKling]

As a well known Israeli General said "Everything we have comes from the US".

[@Ar1AnX1x]

when you think about it its kinda crazy to get mad at a hostile Hamas and Hezbollah when Israeli Settlers actively bully palestinians out of their homes and abuse them, and they are terrorist groups don't get me wrong but its like punching someone and then call them savages for fighting back

[@rockethound69]

Really really good. Thank you for this insight.

[@laulaja-7186]

Stuxnet was merely a delaying move, without any hope of permanently containing the problem.

[@cristianbalan518]

0:05 Be proud Israel, you are strong

[@js70371]

CRlMlNALS

[@cristianbalan518]

@js70371 Calm down liberal, it's called dark humour.☠️ It was a JJK reference

[@js70371]

@@cristianbalan518 ah ok. 👌

[@harvardsmithdeangelo6905]

Pride borne of malice and pure hatred for others

[@cheweperro]

Effective military operarions? How mang children have died in the past months due to the one sided massacre? How many more will die due to famine and by the conditions established from that massacre?

[@harvardsmithdeangelo6905]

Children are by necessity human. When you rigidly define others as nonhuman using legalese, you have no limits put on your avarice. See also: George Orwell's Animal Farm.

[@andrewreynolds912]

They say having high technology wins wars, heres the thing thats not always true. "Pure tech rarely wins against ingenuity"

[@alexandrehenri-bhargava2741]

I would definitely buy a book of Shirvan’s aphorisms!

[@mik1984]

You mean there is something else that melts steel, it is used often in demolition of steel frame buildings and railway construction and has also something in common with the subject in question... :)

[@thomasbravado]

Whatever it is you're alluding to, it would have been done with the full knowledge, cooperation, and support of the CIA and the Pentagon, so what's your point?

[@user-sd3hq2dt5n]

as an israeli, i can say it was preaty much acurrate, except the precntege of american aid in security badget which is currently (2023 budget) 16% of budget, and that maby ten people died from enemy rockets, so air defence systems proved themselves. the problem is they made us feel safe when there was a terror oraganization an hour drive from tel aviv. but now you all understand the exact startegic position israel stands in. for decades we are known as an undefitable military power/ and now the antire middle east is watching. will they win? and not only enemied, potential friends as well. in the middle east u talk for the people to shut up and cut deals under the tabel. the saudis can talk against us as much as they want, but they still need us for the nuclear era we are geting into. so it must end in two objective. we can win any war our enemies will create, u=suprise attack by enemies, urban terrain, and hundreds of hostages by enemies. and the second anyone that will retest this theory will pay a price that no rain can wash away. this is a jungle down here. stone age way. you realy forgot how its like. we also did, and woke up the hard way. pax americana is dead.

[@yasserel-harmil535]

Why do you have the Golan heights as part of Israel while it's officially occupied?!

[@topranks6414]

The 1973 War "6th of October Triumph" aka "Yum Kappor" was a clear defeat for Israel when Egypt who launched the attack gained control over parts of Sainai and forced Israel to give the rest over a peace treaty. So, I would not call this "another victerious war" as you have kindly stated in the video about time 4:37 - Even the picture in the graph demo of those men mounting the tank cheering up, are Egyptians as far as I could tell from the photo :) Thank you though Caspian Report for the informative videos

[@yohaibenami5374]

Having lived in Israel all my life (that is 60 years), I find this video full of good intentions, but lacks a perspective of the Israeli society. Still, thanks for the good intentions. There aren't many of those these days.

[@smrdljivivlah5879]

Israeli government arms genocidel groups, your country does shady stuff everywhere.

[@smrdljivivlah5879]

Israeli government arms genocidel groups, your country does shady stuff everywhere.

[@mansabdski1067]

For the sake of peace in the world, They should not be.

[@JoeRogansForehead]

@@mansabdski1067yes because islamists have shown how great they are when the obtain power

[@mansabdski1067]

@@JoeRogansForehead nothing to do with Judaism, Islam or Christianity !!

[@irishalbino9308]

according to one source, the observation towers on the border with gaza reported unusual and heavy military training last August and September, but they were all operated by women, and idf command considered them overreacting and hysterical, saying men would see these activities differently. the al aqsa flood was formulated 2 years ago, and was completed in a year. Israeli informants presented the plan, including maps of entry points to idf command, who brushed it off as impossible.

[@aviholland1]

NO FUTURE FOR TERROR

[@mmeldhshan]

War breakout vs. surprise attack. Your language says it all.

[@DEC3TheWokeProject]

Your opening is something my ex used to say.

[@EinFelsbrocken]

Nooo 😭

[@DEC3TheWokeProject]

That was killer

[@Not_so_important]

Small lives matter

[@butchness6980]

I remeber when I learned about stuxsnet, I just bust out laughing every time its mentioned now. You know there were engineers just like "bro I did this calc like 30 times and its still breaking. WTF!" 😂

[@Mako2401]

Not a single video on Azerbaijan... I wonder why.

[@MyVanir]

Now I kinda want to look through their catalog of videos for anything on Turkey too.

[@WillyKling]

Nepal is seldom mentioned :(

[@Tej517]

Azerbaijan is an autocratic regime , hence no freedom of expression.

[@jholotanbest2688]

I think Isreal is right that the importance of the soldier with a rifle is in decline.

[@Pieate_Club]

Israel was dressed for the battle, and you can see it in the amazing results the IDF has been having since it entered the Gaza Strip. Israel's greatest weakness is the continuing approach of Israel's leadership that they are located in Europe, and not in the Middle East

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

They did it with our money- Money that could be benefitting us here at home, but is instead being wasted over there.

[@JabbarTV1]

I feel sad for American citizens having to waste billions in aid everywhere from their tax payers money especially to this one entity

[@shubhammishranumb]

The comment section is on fire here

[@dmvfilms]

Jeruselem is the Capitol, not Tel Aviv.