Recently we have heard some clear
voices complaining about the descending level of the Israeli
high-ranking officers coming fom all corners of society.
• Have the areas of interests
of the officers become narrower?
• Has their level of military
and theoretical strategic thinking really derogated?
This article will try to address
some of the questions, problems and aspects related to the above
concerns and their consequences. In this article, we do not relate to
the technical-professional level of the commanders and their ability to
maintain and control the modern tactical weapons, rather we deal with
the continuing lack of high-ranking officers who demonstrate leadership
characteristics: broad and abstract thinking, as well as an ideology and
charisma which characterized the military leaders of vision which we
often saw in the first IDF Generals.
This critical lack of leadership
seriously affects the state of the nation. The IDF high-ranking officers
who served in the nation’s first years formed the main political leader
reservoir and laid the foundation to many of its basic pillars.
Israel will miss this reservoir in
the future.