Download or read book Gaza Conflict 2021 Asessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of May 2021 underscore how the United States should prepare to face future adversaries, from loosely organized terrorist groups to conventional armed forces, that blame the other side for their own efforts to willingly put civilians at risk. It will have to contest such conflicts emphatically, and preemptively, in the information domain as much as in the physical. The U.S. military should train to operate in environments significantly more complex than Gaza —just as densely populated by civilians, but farther afield, with more limited intelligence, no air dominance, and a contested electromagnetic spectrum—while remaining committed to LOAC compliance. But the U.S. military must also be clear-eyed about setting realistic expectations for what that compliance will look like in such operations—it might not be feasible to take the same extraordinary but costly precautions Israel employed in Gaza. Investments, together with partners like Israel, in new technologies to counter adversaries’ advancing capabilities and enable mitigating risk to civilians will be critical.