fodder by Hamas. They obviously aren't at that strategic level. They're the guys with the guns. They probably don't even know. In fact, there are reports now that many of them did not know what they were training for. And this is part of the tradecraft that I'm talking about is you keep a thing a secret when you don't even tell your own people too much because you fear that it'll get to the other side and you won't succeed. That's sort of the strategic intent here. Did they think that they were going to be successful to this extent? No. No actor is. Everything, as you were saying earlier, Dmitri, there is the theoretical. So you do this wargaming on the drawing board and you say, hey, this is what could happen. You try to game it out as best as possible, but no battle plan, no attack, no offensive terrorist attack, insurgent attack, you know, conventional armed forces engaging in an operation. Do not know how things will play out once, you know, they pulled a trigger. So I think that (34/99)
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