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I play a series of Real Time Strategy games called Wargame. It is based on the cold war, NATO vs Warsaw Pact. Lots of fun. Yes, it's just a video game, but after seeing experienced players used combined arms over thousands of hours, you learn something about tactics and the failures of human nature.
After many many hours I've seen this type of strategy play out time and again. Occasionally someone will organise an impromptu Thunder Run or more specifically an attack largely formed of fast moving motorised ground elements. (where motorised is very loosely used. Achmed and his mates in the back of a Toyota Corolla speeding down the highway with AK74's would work. No need to even have a Technical)
It just works. It shouldn't, but it does. Defense networks just can't react that quickly to scenarios that haven't already had countermeasures emplaced. There aren't enough QRF's for this type of thing on a large scale. People skilled at defense don't have the resources for every scenario, so oddball bum's rushes are far more successful than they have any right to be.
Thoughts like 'surely someone would have thought about this and put something in place' are very often wrong. Once the dust has settled in Israel, I'm sure these strategies will be patched, only for new ones to take their place the next time Gaza flares up.
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