defined as ‘a process for obtaining a desired strategic outcome or effect on the enemy
through the synergistic and cumulative application of the full range of military and
non-military capabilities at all levels of conflict’. Lieutenant Colonel Allen W. Batsche-
let,Effects-Based Operations: A New Operational Model?(Carlisle, PA: US Army War
College, 2002), 2.- The Winograd Commission’s Interim Report, 49. For a recent criticism of EBO, see
General John N. Mattis, ‘Assessment of Effects Based Operations’,http://smallwars-
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Monica, CA: RAND, 2000); John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt,Swarming and the
Future of Conflict(Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2000); Amir Rapaport,Friendly Fire(Tel
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Adam’s Technological Revolution’,Haaretz, 2 April 2004. - Barnea and Shiffer, interview with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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- Amira Lam, ‘We Betrayed Our Constituency’,Yediot Aharonot Weekend Supplement,
1 September 2006. - Ari Shavit, interview with General (ret.) Yossi Peled,Haaretz Weekend Supplement,
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(April 1998), 3–6. - Kober, ‘What Happened to Israeli Military Thinking?’
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