At the beginning of the year, it will be announced as the only operation designed to neutralize terrorists assimilated into the population. • Lt. Col. E.: "We have almost no restrictions"
Unit personnel in action
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Oren Cohen
Please get to know: "Ghosts" - the multidimensional unit in the IDF, which is supposed to bring the good news to the next war and allow the enemy to be defeated more efficiently and quickly than before.
Training of the "Ghost" unit // Photo: IDF Spokesman
This unit was established as part of the ideas that Aviv Kochavi brought with him when he took over as chief of staff. .
"Ghosts", which recently completed its first full training, will be announced at the beginning of next year as having operational competence, and is now being revealed for the first time in "Israel Today". It brings together the best commanders and fighters from all the army units, who also had at their disposal the best weapons and technologies that exist in all bodies and arms in the IDF, in order to "bring down the General Staff's ability to the field."
The founding documents of "Ghosts" state that it will be "a multi-armed and multi-dimensional maneuvering unit, operating in all battlefields, at all depths, with high combat capability to locate and expose an enemy and destroy it with high flow."
Another role assigned to it was to be a kind of General Staff laboratory where methods and means of warfare would be tested, which would later be assimilated into all army units.
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"This unit is like plasticine," tries to illustrate Lt. Col. E. (42), commander of the unit's "Exposure and Assault Center." We have almost no limits. You can try any weapon, any way of control and command. Study foreign armies, consult with industries. It has no brother or sister in the army. We have flexibility of thought and flexibility in action, with the only consideration being what will be good for the forces on the ground. "
Major A. (33), the AGM officer, former deputy commander of Egoz, adds: "Anyone who has ever been a fighter knows how difficult it is to create a common language between all the forces and elements. In all the operations I participated in, I experienced the difficulty of expressing Clal "The capabilities. Here it works differently. We have not yet reached the point where we want to be in terms of complete ability to expose the enemy and destroy it, but we are definitely on our way there."
In the latest tensions with Hezbollah, the unit went up north, to test its methods of operation and capabilities. "Suddenly it was real," says Lt. Col. A., 34, the unit's deputy commander, who came from Sheldag. "Not just words and ideas, but real fighting, with all the difficulties of environmental and enemy conditions."
The full article tomorrow in the "Shishvat" supplement of "Israel Today"
