Why Did Israeli Intelligence Fail So Disastrously?
By Warographics
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@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204
Or did they let it happen for an excuse to flattern Gaza.
@Delta501st
This is literally the best coverage of the crisis that I’ve seen. Not worried about being pro either side, just worried about presenting the facts and trying to prevent issues in the future.
@The88Cheat
I feel like this is Simon’s best channel. I don’t know if it’s him or if he’s just the mouthpiece of others, but this is one of the best works of passion on the topics of military intelligence, war fighting, and geopolitics I’ve ever scene.
@j0thom15
This was an absolutely brilliant analysis! Your thorough understanding of the history of warfare and the repetitive nature of human behavior gives you rare insight into present day developments. This video should go viral. Mass media will never touch this level of fair, thorough, and nuanced understanding of such a complex conflict.
@LeiaAskin
How your team can produce a video that is so well put together and provide more useful information than news organizations is crazy!
@covodex516
Wow, amazing how quickly you now manage to come forth with analyses like this one! And I’m super thankful for it because this is the most mysterious question about this entire event for me.
@mattetheridge115
Simon, thank you. I’ve been with you over multiple channels over multiple years. I knew nothing about this situation minus small talk chatter at my pub and I spent all day at work listening to updates on this very important situation starting with your last video from a few days ago that auto played after an episode of cas crim. I know this will get buried in comments but I wanted to express my deepest and most sincere appreciation for the research you and your team does daily to keep us entertained and, quite possibly more important than ever, informed. Your really are the peoples’ champion and I hope you do know that.
Again, thank you so much for everything.
@BDR8810
It’s quite impressive how quickly your team is able to create very high production value videos. Kudos
@mattetheridge115
Simon, thank you. I’ve been with you over multiple channels over multiple years. I knew nothing about this situation minus small talk chatter at my pub and I spent all day at work listening to updates on this very important situation starting with your last video from a few days ago that auto played after an episode of cas crim. I know this will get buried in comments but I wanted to express my deepest and most sincere appreciation for the research you and your team does daily to keep us entertained and, quite possibly more important than ever, informed. Your really are the peoples’ champion and I hope you do know that.
Again, thank you so much for everything
@jimbo9305
7:30 – When I was in the USAF we always tried to design our systems with redundancy and single points of failure in mind. It seems odd to me that Israel spent billions of shekels on a system that did not have built-in redundancy. It’s not that difficult to imagine a cell tower getting struck by a rocket. That’s why you would need a hardline connection (fiber or copper) and/or a satellite backup for each sensor array.
@kiwiviking175
This has to be the best geo-political analysis I have seen in the past week on the subject; and I work in geo-political analysis! I would love to hire this guy, but it would only hinder his imagination, impartial approach and discerning analysis. Well played sir, well played!
@hughjass1044
Events like this always make me think back to one of the earliest and most valuable lessons I ever learned during my military career and two of the most vitally important concepts of defense….. deterrence and vigilance….. and what can happen if they’re neglected and if they fail.
Long hours on guard duty or manning observation posts, especially in quiet sectors, we’d get annoyed that we weren’t allowed to read or play cards but we would occasionally discover that there was good reasons for all of that when we found militant OPs watching us or something of that nature.
Our officers would remind us that the result of high levels of vigilance and successful deterrence is… nothing. Boredom. The total absence of activity. The enemy, who is ALWAYS watching you, has seen that you are vigilant, alert and prepared and has thus decided not to act but instead wait for the day when you are NOT vigilant, alert and prepared.
@87rapha
Excellent and rapid analysis of the these tragic events. How your team put this together so quickly is frankly astonishing.
@SeaUrchinFilms
This is gold, you brought so much clarity in the middle of a lot of confusion, and shed a very realistic light on a “failure of imagination”. Please share more light into this conflict, we need to understand the true stakes here, and the way of thoughts of the key players.
@aymonfoxc1442
You are quite right to point out the military restructuring. Many of those commanders that died went to fight at the contact line because there weren’t enough soldiers in the south and they didn’t want to send the new conscripts under their command into combat before they had completed their training.
@sunshineforlunch
Always appreciate your breakdowns. Well thought out, well put together information. Half documentary, half news report. It’s refreshing to watch.
@chloefletcher9612
Something people don’t talk about enough with Israel’s government is it is essentially formed of several, small (micro) single-issue-parties. They’re focused solely on their single issue and not really capable of viewing bigger pictures or governing effectively. So when you bring an issue of “Hamas is preparing for something big” to a group of politicians who are instead not really talking to each other, don’t like each other and are instead obsessed with their issue (charedim not serving or west bank expansion, etc.) you just can’t expect an effective response and understanding.
@joneizyk3846
FYI- while the Mossad is an intelligence service, its akin to the CIA and used more for foreign operations. the Shabak is more like the FBI and operates extensively in the west bank. Then you also have military intelligence (akin to the NSA), that would have been the ones largely responsible for intel inside Gaza strip. Separate intel branches- which means this is a failure on multiple fronts.
Hubris felled the mighty beast…
@hieunguyenrileygekko
just like Gorbachev says on the Chernobyl TV show, power relies on perception
we have heard so much about how intimidating Russia or US are in military and intelligence, it had made us overestimated them until the actual incindents broke out to test it
@sylwestersuchecki9034
There is no other speaker/ presenter I know that is capable of getting me interested of so many different issues, facts and subjects. Mr Whistler you have a gift there. I’m glad you are so busy making so many videos. I really enjoy your work.
@pgbrown12084
I need to be less involved in this war. Not because it’s not important or not tragic, but because i really got in the weeds when the Ukraine war started. I was watching too many videos everyday. Even though they were high quality, like Simon’s and his teams videos, it wasn’t good for my mental health.
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