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IDF troops use computer simulation to train for Gaza op
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Lebanon, Israel, IDF, Gaza
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for January 31, 2008.

Israel Defense Forces troops training for a possible major operation in Gaza have been utilizing a new computer program designed to simulate the densely populated terrain of the coastal strip.

The use of this program by regular infantry soldiers comes in the wake of the Second Lebanon War, where the IDF learned that its field intelligence had been neglected.

As such, the army hopes the new computer-generated intelligence systems will help soldiers understand enemy terrain better, and fight better, wherever the next conflict may be.
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      1.   enter gaza now! 06:58  |  Jane 01/02/08
      2.   IDF Training simulations 12:39  |  The Archives 01/02/08
      3.   You can help! 14:55  |  Jim 01/02/08
      4.   jews must use their supperior brain more often.great results. 16:16  |  mira 01/02/08
      5.   to#3 16:34  |  jihad 01/02/08
      6.   att: #5 spell/sandwich 18:31  |  Chris 01/02/08
      7.   TO JIHAD 19:18  |  ANDREA 01/02/08
      8.   Number 5 20:27  |  shumdavar 01/02/08
      9.   #4 mira 20:54  |  cfs 01/02/08
      10.   Those systems will not help the Jews. Period. 21:08  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/02/08
      11.   Part of the solution. 22:54  |  Charles Smyth 01/02/08
      12.   Software vs Softwar 23:43  |  Baz Mann 01/02/08
      13.   you gotta be high drunk or just crazy!!? 00:03  |  wise guy 02/02/08
      14.   Let`s keep it at the simulation level 00:59  |  Arab 02/02/08
      15.   Hamas: Der Pantoffelheld :-) 01:35  |  Charles Smyth 02/02/08
      16.   gaza invasion 08:40  |  bashir 02/02/08
      17.   Civilians 12:05  |  Charles Smyth 02/02/08
      18.   wiseguy is right 20:20  |  E 02/02/08
      19.   Response 20:50  |  Gordon Walker 02/02/08
      20.   idf getting owned, lmfao 12:42  |  act of desperation 03/02/08
      21.   Hmm, but the Pantoffelheld kicked IDF`s a** 21:04  |  Gray 03/02/08
      22.   @wiseguy: Where is the evidence? 21:18  |  Gray 03/02/08
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