Gaza war (part 3). 100 days of the ground war. An update
100 days into the ground war (excluding the ceasefire after a month of fighting) is a good time to review the assumptions made in the first 2 parts of this series and provide and update on the fighting. As was the case in the first 2 parts of this series. I am not commenting on the moral or political aspects of the conflict, as that has been commented on at length in any number of fora, representing a wide spectrum of opinion. There are however military and military related geopolitical aspects of this war that are inadequately covered, which is a gap I’d like to fill. The 2 previous posts in this series: https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2023/10/what-israeli-invasion-of-gaza-might.html https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-gaza-war-by-numbers-2-months-later.html In my past post, at the end of Dec, I had speculated that brigades from the 36 th and 162 nd division of the IDF would move out for rest and refitting, while being replaced by fresh units. This was based on the high number o