The establishment of the Ariel Sharon National Leadership and Military Thought, launched last night at Reichman University, is a blessing in disguise. Critically, action can be encouraged to promote national values.
It makes sense that senior members of the defense establishment and even the chief of staff, who was the keynote speaker at the ceremony, were invited to the event. This is a wonderful publicity opportunity for him to brand himself with Sharon. .
If I were required to produce a course on military leadership, I would choose these two figures to illustrate to the trainees two completely different "ideal types" of leadership and military thought.
Sharon is a leader whom Moshe Dayan called officers of his type "galloping horses": those whose commanders are anxious about how to stop their "over-activity";
A leader who does not speak but does.
While Israeli society was plagued by terrorist attacks, he "sold" the "restraint is power" brand to her, while in practice he waited for the "army of restraint and restraint" he inherited to return to a level of operation so that it could be properly used against the Palestinian Authority.
Sharon himself asked to locate Ariel Sharonim in the IDF - for example, Aviv Kochavi was a paratrooper brigadier general who, together with his colleagues, pushed "from below" to launch Operation Defensive Shield, just as Sharon did in the face of ambivalent leaderships;
Not to mention Sharon who in the Yom Kippur War led to success in the face of opposition from his commanders;
And most importantly - Sharon who upon entering the Prime Minister's Office launched the most significant military operation since he was himself Minister of Defense - while operating five divisions that took over almost all of Judea and Samaria and liberated the IDF from the paralyzing Oslo paradigm, and especially ignoring sociological analyzes of Israeli society Sensitive to victims and avoids recruitment.
Under Kochavi, on the other hand, there are brigades who want to act - but Kochavi himself is what Moshe Dayan called a "lazy bull," a commander who turned the IDF into an army that does not have the option of maneuvering.
Sharon has been identified with a victory in deeds, but Kochavi has been identified with a victory in branding.
At the beginning of his term, he launched a campaign disguised as an operating program called "Perception of Victory."
Only it was left on paper.
At the end of Operation The Wall Guard, which left the Hamas leadership and its capabilities strengthened, he released a YouTube video entitled "Hamas made a serious mistake" in which he made it clear to the Israeli public that even though we lost, we won, while lecturing officers in the computer room. Won, perhaps justifying the addition of pensions he had arranged for himself and his colleagues.
The tenure of the stars is a branding term.
He branded his first year as the Chief of Staff of Victory, and here he opens the fourth by "touching" on the leadership of Ariel Sharon.
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