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Answer: The events of October 7 dealt a major blow to the IDF's reputation, but the importance of this failure should not be either exaggerated or downplayed. The existing situation today is the result of a whole series of factors: mistakes made in Israeli intelligence, Hamas's thorough preparation, and accumulated socioeconomic changes both in Israel itself and in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, the element of surprise is still an important military factor. Modern warfare is characterized by the extreme difficulty of the covert deployment of large-scale military contingents in a world of well-developed space reconnaissance and a camera in every phone. This is still true for large-scale deployments and for sizable military theaters.
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