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Patton’s War Principles

By

Prof. Paul Eidelberg, President

Israel-America Renaissance Institute

Jerusalem and Philadelphia

Israel’s General Staff would do well to emulate George S. Patton, the general most feared by Nazi Germany. Thus, on the eve of battle, Patton would admonish his soldiers: “The object of war is not to die for your country. It is to make the other poor dumb bastard die for his.” This requires confronting and killing the enemy on the battlefield.

“Never let the enemy rest.” No cease fires or hudnas. Unconditional surrender should be Israel’s proclaimed war aim!

“We want the enemy to KNOW that they are fighting the toughest fighting men in the world!” This precludes benevolence (which Arabs despise). Just as Hamas and Hezbollah warriors would show no mercy to you, so you should show no mercy to them. These warriors must be killed even if this results in civilian casualties.

“Forget about army regulations … [which] are written by those who have never been in battle…Our only mission in combat is to win.” Hence general officers may sometimes have to disobey orders of the political echelon!

Patton’s famous admonition, “Grab the Enemy by the nose and kick him in the pants,” though simple, is profoundly significant in the war between Jews and Arabs. Israel must devastate the Arabs or Muslims from top to bottom so as to erase the Islamic arrogance that prompts them to wage war against “infidels.”

The Netanyahu Government must heed the principles of war, which requires Netanyahu to order the IDF to confront and kill the enemy primarily on the battlefield. Bombing the enemy’s infrastructure should not obscure the importance of destroying the enemy’s ground forces. The defeat of these Arab warriors must be so thorough that it will eradicate their desire to wage war for a hundred years—the policy of the Allies powers that made militant Germany and Japan lovers of peace.

The Netanyahu Government should not be deterred by fear of world opinion, not by UN condemnation, and not possible sanctions. This fear cannot but undermine Israel’s General Staff and the fighting spirit of Israeli soldiers. This fear is baseless, and it will lead to more Jewish casualties.

It is of capital importance that the Netanyahu Government conduct the war in Gaza as a war between good and evil. The IDF will have to become a virtual killing machine to stop the killing once and for all!

Israel’s victory in this war will ultimately depend on whether Netanyahu and the General Staff are animated by the profound sense of good and evil that inspired America’s greatest generals—suffice to mention, along with Patton, William Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War fame. Both generals inspired their armies with complete confidence in the justice of their cause.

Yet both pursued a war strategy that actually minimized casualties on all sides. They imbued their soldiers with the will to win and in the shortest possible time—which precludes the irrational and marsh mellow concept of “proportionality”—a concept never used by a war-winning army. R require is the use of overwhelming force and the uninterrupted attack. Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Ehud Barak must not be intimidated by left-wing media whose self-serving sentimentalism is in fact cruelty that can only result in the murder of more Jews. This is a message which Netanyahu must make crystal clear to the public on public forums.

The Prime Minister and his generals who believe in the justice of his nation’s will not shy from cruelty against Hamas and Hezbollah. Indeed, they should fulfill the Muslim wish to die for Allah! In this war between good and evil, those Israeli generals who implement these time-tested principles of war will be our greatest humanists.