The only difference in the way the Israel Defense Forces is presenting its new multi-year procurement program, code-named Tefen, is that there is no talk of a "window of opportunity" for something positive to occur. The situation in the region is bad, and very likely only to worsen. The Iranian nuclear weapon is nearly here, and other threats - Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas - are known. As such, the IDF is not even bothering to pay lip service to cuts (as it did in the past): Its message is precisely the opposite.

The difficulty is being able to provide answers to the variety of types of threats, which are also pressuring the army to become more versatile.