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It is very difficult to analyze and understand the Second Lebanon War without understanding how the IDF entered it. By this I am not referring to the moment the decision was made to attack on July 12, 2006, rather to the processes that occurred in the years leading up to the war. In this context, it is necessary to try to understand the fields where the military was focusing its endeavors, the topics with which the army was dealing, and the outlook of the IDF’s leadership at that time. It is necessary to focus on two central, interrelated points. The first concerns the ongoing war on terrorism in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, and the question of how this warfare affected the IDF. The second point is the limited resources the army had to cope with in those years.