Senior defense source: IDF preparing for possible covert Iranian nuclear production
The IDF must assume its most severe “reference scenarios” regarding Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic State will come true, in order to correctly use the coming years to reshape the military, improve training, and make cost-cutting reforms, a senior military official said as he revealed a multi-year plan aimed at doing just that.
Military planners, led by new IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, have spent four years drawing up the Gideon Plan, which calls for significantly increasing the power of wartime multi-arena combat divisions; restructuring the army to create specialized brigades and battalions that focus exclusively on border security and leave the main fighting to the divisions; and improving weapons and training.
The plan was disclosed on Monday ahead of the scheduled publication Tuesday of the findings of the Locker Commission on the defense budget. It is expected to call on the IDF to reduce itself in size by a third – a recommendation defense sources described as being completely out of tune with Israel’s security environment.
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