1. “Strategy,” in military terms, means the general method chosen to confront a particular enemy, and the management of allocated resources at the national level. “Tactics” refers to how individual soldiers or units fight in the field. The operational level lies in the middle, it oversees implementation of the general strategy in the battlefield.
2. Hirsh Goodman, “How Strong Was the PLO?” Jerusalem Post, July 9, 1982, p.4.
3. According to one source, Israel lost 983 killed out of 250,000 men participating in the 1967 war, and 189 killed out of 100,000 in the 1956 war. Col. T.N. Dupuy, The Elusive Victory (London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1978), pp. 212, 333 and 337.