The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday launched a large-scale exercise simulating a war on multiple fronts, with units throughout the military taking part, the army said.
The four-day drill will be held as a “headquarters exercise,” the IDF said, meaning it will focus on the more administrative aspects of such a war, not on tactical training of soldiers in the field.
The purpose of the exercise is to test and improve the communication between different parts of the military, wartime operations, and interdepartmental planning, the IDF said.
Representatives from the Northern Command, Southern Command, Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy, Intelligence Directorate, and Telecommunications and Cyber Defense Directorate will take part in the drill.
The exercise was scheduled to end on Wednesday. The military said it was planned in advance and is therefore not tied to a new, specific threat.
In general, however, the military believes that a future war in the north may quickly spread and become a multi-front conflict, with terror groups from Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip all taking part.
Last month, the military held a surprise cyber defense exercise simulating an attack that shut down critical computer systems, in the third surprise inspection of the military’s readiness under IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, who entered his position last year.
“During the exercise, hundreds of command and control computer stations were disabled in IDF units,” the military said. READ MORE
