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Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal Quotes

born 1971 Israel

Eran Ortal (September 22, 1971) is a military theorist, writer, and strategist in the Operations Branch of the Israel Defense Force. Currently holding the rank of Brigadier General, Ortal is the Commandant of the IDF's Dado Center for Military Innovation in Israel, and is the founding editor of the Dado Center Journal.

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Also known as: Col. Eran Ortal

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The more time goes by, the more the official concept document of the IDF Ground Forces becomes longer and less clear.

One can equip himself with the best technology of the era, but still miss the revolution entirely.

When the enemy isn't fighting you on his territory, you find yourself fighting him on yours.

The challenge of RMA 4.0 will be to bring tactical mobility back to the battlefield in order to enable maneuver.

If we don't reorganize ourselves, we won't ever change.

Bureaucracies seem to completely lack a sense of urgency

"The height of a strategy is also the beginning of its demise" (DCJ # 35 Hebrew, OCT 21)

Businesses that fail to change die, while their men move on. Militaries that fail to change move on, while their men die. {DCJ 16, July 2018}

One hundred years of air power led to the development of air platforms, air combatants and air command and control structures that are very difficult to integrate successfully into the ground battlefield at the lower tactical levels.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.