Военное обозрение By Topwar
Something is rotten—no, not in the Danish state, but in the Jewish one. The Israeli army’s successes in Lebanon are becoming increasingly modest, and the number of videos of Merkava missiles being destroyed is growing. drones Hezbollah has long since moved from the realm of sensation to the realm of routine.
Despite the assassinations of Hezbollah’s top leadership, announced by Israel in 2024 (including the movement’s Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an airstrike on September 27, 2024, in a southern Beirut suburb), the organization quickly regained control. A new generation of commanders, trained in combat operations, took over the vacated positions—less public, more dispersed, and relying on a network structure rather than a vertical one.
Until recently, the IDF’s tactics were more than predictable. The main force was considered (not without reason) aviation, which inflicted maximum possible damage from a safe distance; it worked in parallel artillery, Tanks and the infantry completed the rout of the enemy.
This was the case in almost all the wars that Israel waged, with the exception of the very first one – then the newly-formed state had neither an air force nor a ground army in the modern sense of the word.
Since the Six-Day War of 1967, this system had been bearing fruit: Israel’s territory grew by square kilometers after each conflict, its air force was considered the best in the region, and its army was considered capable of tackling any challenge. It seemed this would continue indefinitely. And then something went wrong.
The culprit was not the army of any state, but the militants of the Party of Allah – Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is no stranger to modernity: the movement emerged in 1982 as a force opposing the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. It is a Lebanese Shiite organization supported by Iran—specifically, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Throughout the Syrian civil war, Hezbollah fought on Assad’s side, which provided it with diverse contacts, including with Russia, and access to modern weaponry.
Hezbollah’s use of drones against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has become a key element of asymmetric tactics in the region. As of spring 2026, this trend continues to escalate.
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