At the end of a 10-year period, the IDF's Chief of Staff, General Yitzhak Barak, sounded the alarm about the problems facing the forces and the dangers that this poses to the state.
Barak, who left the post of IDF ombudsman this week, after 53 years of service in the Defense Ministry and the army, stressed in a long interview published by Haaretz yesterday that the Israeli army is experiencing the worst crisis since 1965 and suffers from the collapse of the administrative culture. Level of military awareness.
The retired general pointed out that this "dangerous virus" requires urgent treatment, pointing out that the cultural reasons behind the failures of Tel Aviv military from the Second Lebanon War until the war in Gaza in 2014.
The Israeli army is the largest company in the country with an annual budget of $ 8.5 billion and employs thousands, he said, stressing the absence of the required management of these resources and serious flaws in the structure of the armed forces, especially land units.
The retired official said an internal check conducted two years ago revealed that only 15 percent of the orders issued by the chief of staff and his deputy were applied to the ground because of the highly complex system for carrying out orders and the absence of a monitoring mechanism.
He pointed out that these defects were clearly demonstrated during the targeting of an army bus with a missile near the Gaza Strip in mid-November, where the military did not carry out orders issued at the level of the regional leadership and leadership of the division, and Brik described it as "absolute chaos."
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