The psychological warfare is a war plan not a luxury or a slyness

Written by Nasser Kandil,

The Lebanese resistance especially the resistance of Hezbollah in the person of its leader Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrollah has established a school that combines the field war and the psychological warfare, the field deterrence and the psychological deterrence, it has proved its effectiveness at different stations by achieving results that are still valid in making balances for the real forces and the hidden ones which rule the conflict between the resistance and Israel, while many people strive to get the rules of the psychological warfare which pursued by the resistance in order to follow them, but they miss that they are not luxury of academic researchers and they are not  slyness that its features and rulers were set by professional artists but these rules form costly war plan that completes the process of the war once and prior to its process many times, but in every time it has the same cost.

It is a sign of proudest to the resistance and its leader that the Israeli leadership at all the political, military, security, judicial and financial levels ratifies the decision of dismantling the ammonia containers in Haifa in response to the threat of the leader of the resistance as one of the goals of the coming war, as the equation of “Israel is weaker than the cobweb” was one of the titles of the war of July 2006. This equation was launched in the year 2000 during the speech of AL Sayyed Nasrollah from the square of Bint Jbeil, so one of the goals of the war of July is to reach the same square and to put the Israeli flag on the platform from where Al Sayyed Nasrollah talked in order to say Israel is not weaker than the cobweb. But one of the signs of the victory in July is the failure of the Israeli attempt to enter Bint Jbeil and to reach to the platform of the victory and to set the Israeli flag on it.

The cost in the successive episodes of the psychological warfare equations is blood, exhausting efforts, and unlimited preparations, no one dare to say that he will target Ammonia containers but only the one who has the ability to put his threat into effect and to convince his enemy at all his popular and official levels of the credibility of the ability, the seriousness, and the honesty of the implementation of the threat, but before that, the resistance has to put between the hands of those who concerned in decision-making and the public opinion industry of the enemy what make them certain of the honesty, the credibility, and linking the words with the ability and the seriousness of action by having missiles of accurate-injury that are able to destroy, have mobile capabilities in their range, and able to avoid the attempts of repelling them. This means a full war through the exercises of the resistance missiles and the missiles that face the Iron Dome, the banks of opposite objectives and the competing intelligence capacities in reaching more of information, as well as the accuracy in the survey of data. Therefore the psychological war becomes an incentive for a war that has not occurred but it requires blood and capacities that are consumed by a full war.

The equation of ” Israel is weaker than the cobweb” has been put in the year 2000 but it was proven in the year 2006, and the equation of  “we are the people who do not leave our detainees in prisons” has been put in 2001 and it was proven after the war of July 2006 with the setting free of the detainees. Till one of the Israeli Generals of the war during the investigations of Winograd, said that if in the coming war we have the opportunity to get detainees of Hezbollah we have to avoid that, because this will lead us to another war and maybe it will occur in unfavorable circumstances.

The equation of “You want it an open war so let it be” and ” Haifa and beyond beyond Haifa” and the equation of ” we have a lot of surprises for you” all would be valueless if the resistance was not prepared for each one of them a plan that is able to be translated in the field, the ability to wage the open war which the resistance showed in the war of July, the reach of its missiles to beyond beyond Haifa towards the beginning of the war by the surprise of destroying the battleship Saar directly on air in conjunction with the speech of Al Sayyed Nasrollah.

The equation of the war on Syria was ” you will repent of the bet of exhausting us, we will get out of this war stronger, nothing will renounce us from our task against you, what has been prepared for you is accumulating despite the war on Syria” this equation has been proven by the recognition of the Israelis today about the growing force of Hezbollah, Most importantly is that in their consciousness and unconsciousness the equation of the decision of the war on Syria entitled ” we will be where we should be” the Israelis apply it on a comparison of surpassing the borders towards Syria and its moving later towards Palestine, so they will conclude the seriousness of threat through the ground crossing to Galilee or to Golan or to both of them . Now they are making calculated, geographic, and military projections of the military operation of Juroud Aral in each of Shabaa Farms and Golan Heights.

In the speech of victory, Al Sayyed Nasrollah was inspired by dismantling Ammonia containers; so he said: think of Dimona because it is more dangerous, this phrase occupied the headlines of newspapers and the TV channels, it started to turn into an equation of the next psychological warfare. Its historic and strategic importance is that it afflicts the Israeli military ideology which was founded by Ben-Gurion on the basis of the theory of possessing every deadly weapons in compensation for the lack of the opportunities of waging equivalent wars with the armies of the region by Israel due to geography. The nuclear bomb was the goal of Ben-Gurion to protect Israel. Today the Israeli experts have a logic that shows that the narrow geographic range imposes on Israel to get rid of the nuclear and the chemical weapons because their targeting will be a disaster on Israel which it will not be able to use them in any future war.

A resistance makes equations because it makes war, because it was founded and it continues its process with honesty and credibility. Its war’s plan is the origin of its psychological warfare. The one who puts its plans is its leader.  Here his charm and excellence lie due to the feature of honesty, credibility, the symbolism of war and victory, and the alternation between the words and deeds and between a war and another.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,