The moment it became clear Hezbollah would be starting a large-scale drone and missile attack last week, Israel fired a preemptive strike that targeted dozens of launch sites within Lebanon. This was, to use sophisticated military parlance, a no-brainer, reducing stress on the air...
Over nearly nine months of simmering conflict with the Hizbollah militant group, Israel’s military has laid waste to swaths of southern Lebanon. Even as diplomats scramble to prevent a full-scale war that could inflame the region, Israeli attacks have destroyed or badly damaged buildings and infr...