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Senior IDF officers: Army 'radically' better prepared for next war
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: IDF, Training, Israel 

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Sukenik's criticism was legitimate but the real condition of the army was much better than he had described it, the sources said.

"We are not training enough," Sukenik, who led an IDF in-house probe after the Second Lebanon War, said Thursday.


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