Military analyst Elijah Magnier says the ongoing attacks on communication systems in Lebanon bear the hallmarks of an initial salvo before launching a major military operation.
“Normally in every war, the first attack is on a command-control base, and here the Israelis are attacking the control, which is the communication. Crippling communication is vital in any war because it is the main spine of the [enemy] army,” Magnier told Al Jazeera.
Hezbollah commanders and fighters will now have to revert to mobile phones, and “the Israelis can connect to that machine” and identify its location, he said.
“They have access to all the communication systems because they’ve drawn the map of the whole area as they’ve been working on this since 2010 using artificial intelligence,” Magnier noted. “Now with the system they have used, they waited more than 24 hours to destroy a second and different communication system that Hezbollah relied on.”
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