The Gaza war by numbers - 2 months later
My earlier post was published a week before the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza started. I had estimated then, that it would take 2 months for the IDF to eliminate Hamas as a significant threat. Two months have passed since the start of ground operations and it will be useful to see how things have progressed and how my assumptions have held up. Based on the Israeli army’s order of battle (ORBAT), I had speculated that Israel will deploy the following force for a ground invasion of Gaza: The link to that post: https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2023/10/what-israeli-invasion-of-gaza-might.html 3 Parachute / Commando Brigades. 9 Infantry brigades ( 2 regular and 7 reserve). 8 Armored brigades ( 2 regular and 6 reserve). The IDF’s did deploy 20 brigades, with a slightly different composition: 4 Parachute /Commando brigades 10 Infantry brigades (4 regular and 6 reserve), 6 Armored brigades (4 regular and 2 reserve). This is open source info from the Israeli govt website and media .