Escalation Dominance: The Israelis Decimate Hezbollah
A multi-phase operation was initiated by the three thousand or so simultaneous pager blasts on Tuesday, September 17 in Lebanon. The next day other items such as handheld radios and solar arrays also blew up. The operation was likely related to Israel, but besides the Prime Minister donning sunglasses and rejecting the James Bond moniker for his own name, there’s no official confirmation. The pager operation was one of the greatest covert operations ever. It was brilliantly planned and executed.
The ability to interdict the supply chain, place the small explosive charges, and have the pagers delivered to Hezbollah operatives was the greatest ever targeted, mass carnage on a terrorist group. The devastating operation significantly wounded and killed almost 3,000 Hezbollah members,
