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“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy,” said Biden privately, according to Woodward. “He’s a bad fucking guy!”

Reads like a bloody Onion article.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So an interesting thing about the Israeli military, they empower all levels of the command chain to make decisions to complete the mission.

It leads to this interesting situations where top leader can claim complete ignorance and the mission was completed.

Look up the big brain little brain stuff.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's standard in Western militaries. It means units aren't paralyzed by unexpected circumstances while they wait for communication to go up and down the chain of command, and it improves resilience if communications or senior officers are incapacitated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

And yet the Nuremberg defense is no defense at the Hague. Go figure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah that’s the same way the US military operates to varying degrees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm interested to know what country you come from where this isn't standard? Do you find that that lack of flexibility is culturally just in the military there or present in your countries government and corporate cultures as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It's been well reported on that Russia doesn't work like that, with junior officers unable to use initiative and the whole system being very slow to respond to changing events. The reason it operates like this was shown when they did try having a more independent unit, which resulted in the Wagner Group mutinying.