Military experts the world over are commenting on the Rising Lion attack from Israel on Iran.
The militaries of the world are the first to appreciate Israel. But Israel’s contribution is orders of magnitude greater than what appears on the surface.
The little tribe that left Egypt three thousand years ago gave us the modern world through a sequence of historic
events. It now has given us a totally new one. A new social structure that has changed the world again.
I went to Israel in 1958, lived for a year there, and can assure you that other than eating egg plant and eggs every day at a kibbutz, Israel was not unique. I also worked at an aircraft factory, probably where the new social invention was first introduced.
A decade later, in the war against all her Arab neighbors in 1967, the new Israeli social invention became noticeable. The military device was a runway bomb. First delivered by a friend of mine in a decrepit old French jet fighter to bomb Egyptian military runways. The bombs bounced along, leaving several big holes and making it impossible for the fancy advanced Russian jets to take off. Israel won that war in less than a week.
My pilot friend, thirty years later, still thought the bombs had miss-fired.
In the mid 1970s Israel pioneered a new form of warfare. It sent in small drones to Lebanon to activate the radar of the Soviet anti-aircraft missiles. This ‘lighted up’ the missile bases and the Israeli air force destroyed the most sophisticated Soviet missiles.
Then, in Lebanon in mid-September 2024 Israel did something that will be remembered longer than the Trojan Horse. Israel blew up over 3,000 beepers in Lebanon. This killed or incapacitated nearly all the officer class of the enemy Hezbollah army and all of its leadership.
Less than a year later, in June 2025 Israel used 200 fighter aircraft to attack Iran. Israel attacked nuclear scientists and top ranking officers in their homes and apartments, killing the top ten scientists and many military leaders. The remaining military top leaders were killed in an undisclosed manner at a secret site. Concurrently, all air defense systems were destroyed along with the entire nuclear and long range rocket systems. Israeli intelligence was able to launch many attacks with drones smuggled into and launched from Iranian sites.
How does Israel possess this extraordinary military technology and intelligence capability, far exceeding every other nation?
The Israeli genius arises from two conjoined elements: social structure and organizational structure.
- Israel is a society with the least hierarchy of any society on the planet. Israeli social structure has very little to do with birth rank. It is generally structured on intellectual merit, imaginative genius, and autonomous drive. The greatest merit rises to the top. America would be the national population with the second- most such people.
- Israel has organizational mechanisms to make functional use of the abundant autonomous genius. Small groups work well together in ways that outsiders have never effectively described nor understood. I refer my readers to my radio program Social Thought. ‘How institutions work’.
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