Our Pagers are exploding
A brilliantly planned and executed operation. And it appears to be continuing.
Tiny Israel just pulled off one of the greatest covert operations ever. The ability to interdict the supply chain, place the small explosive charges, and have the pagers delivered to Hezbollah operatives was the greatest, targeted, mass carnage on a hard to reach terrorist group ever.
The operation appears to be on going as now a second wave of other personal electronics are blowing up. Here are the key take aways:
Importance of Trusted Supply Chain: Supply Chain surveillance is complicated and difficult, but very important. You have to have trust and confidence down to the piece part of all incoming components and major end items.
Intersection of Cyber and Kinetics: This operation took exhaustive planning. AI/Big Data helped collect and analyze the data to support the storyboarding of the whole concept of operation (CONOP) and the execution of the CONOP.
Precise Targeting: These devices, with small charges, largely hit only the intended recipient. If they had one of the pagers, they were very likely terrorists. Hezbollah has been a designated Terrorist Organization since 1997.
Mass impact and effect: Thousands were wounded or killed, and it is on-going. This significantly degrades the entire Hezbollah force.
Escalation Dominance: The Israelis have once again showed, though tiny, they have the reach, depth, agility, and pervasive presence to hit back hard against Hezbollah, which works for Iran, which works for China.
Psychological Operations: Hezbollah had switched to pagers to reduce their vulnerability to Israeli signals intelligence. Now they can’t trust pagers or any delivered electronic device. This operation could have been pulled off with coffeemakers. Maybe it has. Hezbollah has now been conditioned to not trust anything. Keeping them hyper paranoid degrades their capability and leads to massive infighting.
Be careful of playback: The US and Israel have shown great innovation over the years. However, the terrorists and especially China study the US and Israel in incredible detail and learn from us. The US buys small electronics on a massive scale. Has China already played this back against us?
This was a great victory against Terrorists, who are working on behalf of Iran, and Iran works for and is owned by China. Celebrate, but be vigilant. This is not over.
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Basically, someone has created an army of little Trojan Horse and smuggled them behind the gates of the enemy.
These were tiny horses.
If you read “Stealth War” by Brig. Gen. (ret.) R. Spalding you wake up to the fact that millions of commercial cargo containers in Chinese ports destined for export to U.S., are “checked” by only 4(?) US officials.... in 10+ Chinese ports. Once they arrive in US there is no second check...
So China can get BIG Trojan Horses into US without a problem.
I don’t know if you can store missiles in these containers, or a barrage of little drones, etc.... I have no idea. But after seeing what havoc tiny pagers can cause, I think we need to pay more attention to Chinese container ships.
BTW, Cosco, the Chinese container company is considered the “soft” forefront of the Chinese Navy....
Beware of Trojan Horses.
Never underestimate Israel they may not get you today but they will get you. If I recall Mosadd tracked down those who committed the Munich Olympics blood bath, sabotaged Iran’s their ability to bring nuclear weapons into play, and let's not forget the six-day war. So on and so.