![]() The IDF’s top brass came out of the self-examination workshop with some worrying conclusions. Ortal and his Dado Center team (the author of this article was a researcher at the center during this period but did not participate in the workshop) played a leading role in structuring the year-long self-examination process that resulted in a plan called Momentum. In 2019, upon assuming command of the IDF, Kohavi brought the top brass together for a “Victory Workshop” to lay the groundwork for the army’s next multi-year plan. Over the past decade, explained Kohavi, Ortal’s ideas about transformation “moved from the sidelines of the conceptual debate to the center of consensus.”ĭuring his four years at the head of the Dado Center, which develops the methods for organizational learning in the IDF at its senior echelons, Ortal spread his ideas about the need for fundamental change through courses, articles, and The Dado Center Journal.īefore he moves on, Ortal wants to make sure policymakers and commanders recognize the urgency of the situation, and carry out the transformation process that began under Kohavi. In his foreword to the book, Kohavi called Ortal “one of the most prominent voices in identifying and pointing at the gaps between Israel’s strategic challenges and the necessary operational response.” It instead comes from the pen of a general deeply embedded within the IDF’s top echelon arguing starkly that the military must change dramatically if it is to fulfill its role in protecting the country. Nor is it the score-settling of a disgruntled mid-level officer whose path to promotion was blocked. “The Battle before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF’s Transformation” is not another work by a retiring general recounting the high-octane military exploits that he led. After more than two decades in the IDF’s General Staff, he is retiring at the end of the month.īut before stepping down, Ortal released a book that is unprecedented in the IDF, and exceedingly rare in military organizations. Ortal has been sounding the alarm within the military for years. ![]() The Battle before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF’s Transformation by Brig. ![]()
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