American Protection for “Israel’s” Inner Front-line against “Missile Launching”
The reports about American aircraft participating in bombarding targets in Lebanon while at towering heights during the July Aggression in 2006 remained doubted upon the lack of definitive evidences.
Until "Turning Point 4" (The pre-last Inner-Frontline drills), the announced American military cooperation with "Israel" remained within the limits of coordination and supervision of the Inner-Frontline procedures by American officers.
Yet, this level of relation between both parts was unable to meet the practical "Israeli" needs in regard to the increasing surrounding threats, and thus it was altered from supervision into perfect involvement upon the existence of two main factors: "the Iranian threat" and "Hizbullah".
As regards the frontline with Lebanon, Tel Aviv seeks to guarantee a main goal: "perfecting the aerial defense against missiles so as to save the Military a costly ground combat," says the Commander of "the Active "Defense" Division in the "Israeli" Air Forces Network", Colonel Shahar Shohat.
This goal led to changes in "the Air "Defense" Network and necessitated the reinforcement of coordination with the American Military. The urgency in this field is the size of the role which the American Military is going to perform in any coming regional confrontation that Tel Aviv experiences, way exceeding coordination beyond scenes and resembling a real "aggression".
American Tests in the Mediterranean
Updating reports point out that the American Navy carried out tests in the Mediterranean Sea entitled "The Ocean Call" so as to enhance the ability of warships to monitor threats, on top of which are the Torpedo missiles.
For example, the sonar (marine radar) "U.S.S Leyte" was dispatched in the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean through Gibraltar Strait (Jebel Tariq Strait) by the end of past February.
The American Navy U.S.es this sonar (which has a relatively small size and mass) particularly in the Mediterranean since it is hard for massive naval pieces (that may reach 90,000 tons) coming from the Atlantic Ocean to cross the Gibraltar Strait, which has a water-depth range of 1,000 to 3,000 feet, and which is also "crowded" upon the presence of other ships at that point of the world.
The "U.S.S Leyte" crew of experts in the sonar (marine radar) techniques experienced the "soft murder" technology, which is known as «Niksie» AN | SLQ-25A and assigned to intercept torpedo missiles.
This technique affects the path of the Torpedo missiles, which may be launched against any vessel, and this happens as a device transmits electronic signals similar to the signals transmitted by the vessel; however, the signals of this device are stronger, and this actually adjusts the device sensors' target. Besides, the device being tested works at a specific water depth when this is required, and this can happen after it is lowered through a special opening at the vessel's bottom.
As the tests were being made, the Internet service in Lebanon experienced a jamming process, the source of which later on turned out to be an American warship positioned across from the coast, to the east of the Mediterranean Sea.
It should be mentioned that the experts of the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications experienced a similar incident during the July War in 2006, whereby they noticed a strong jamming on the local transmission waves. That happened while vessels of the offensive "Enterprise Fleet" were positioned across from the Lebanese coast and were getting dispatched on patrols in the Mediterranean Sea.
Supposing that during the July War the reason beyond the jamming was clear and "logical", how can we explain the "overlap" between the waves transmitted by American Military warships that are dispatched in the Mediterranean Sea, across from the Lebanese coast at least once every year? (Every six months, a shift takes place between the naval pieces in the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf Waters.)
Well, it's hard to make an absolute definition regarding the reason beyond the jamming, for the reports declared by the Navy do not actually determine the coordinates of the warships; instead, they describe their "missions".
In order to highlight this issue, we have to offer a simplified technical explanation of the jamming process that affects radio waves.
The jamming process is defined as the emission of radio waves outside the system, whereby these radio waves target the waves of a transmission system (as a radar or broadcast station) in order to revoke its work.
Jamming may be deliberate, as is the case in the military Uses in the context of the so-called electronic war, and may be unintentional, as in the case of any overlap in waves, which means that two different systems are using the same broadcasting wave.
It should be noted that the most vulnerable devices to jamming during the U.S. Navy test are those operating within the scope of C-Band, i.e. those wireless internet networks in Lebanon, as well as in the case of meteorological waves which commonly use the "Wi-Fi" technique on 4.5 GB Hz wave.
Regardless of the cause of jamming that Lebanon witnesses, it is certain that the U.S. Navy has a prior knowledge of waves used by the Lebanese State in its operation of local networks in various fields.
Whatever motives or causes exist beyond such jamming pose a big question on Washington's ships' respect to the Lebanese sovereignty.
Merging Both "Air Defense Systems"
Next January, the American Military is going to perform yearly drills, called "Juniper Cobra", in common with its "Israeli" counterpart. Yet, it will be the first time to merge all multi-layered "Israeli" Air "Defense" arsenals (Heets, the Iron Dome, and Patriot), whereby they're going to be conducted by a single fire center which has will have been built to commence continuous work, starting next year. Still, the "Magic Wand Arsenal" and the "Protection Arsenal" against maritime and heavy missiles are to join these arsenals after having undergone common development between "Israel" and the United States.
In addition to this "unique" procedure, the American Military is going to carry out a group of further procedures concerning "the Iranian threat". As for the preparations for "Juniper Cobra", since the beginning of the current month, they've required a noticeable increase in the number of recruitment sets for "the "Israeli" Air Forces" so as to provide the human resources required for the drill and to operate "the Iron Dome Arsenal", which is Tel Aviv's only hope (and an ineffective hope by the way) against the short-range missiles. So far, four batteries of this Arsenal have been spread, whereas ten others are to be set along the (Palestinian) occupied lands throughout the coming few years.
This, too, is taking place under direct American supervision, and this actually reflects "the seriousness of President Barack Obama's administration as regards protecting "Israel" from missiles", as said by Frank Rose, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance.
What has been mentioned so far is only a little part of the American support for "Israel" in a certain military field ("the Air "Defense" Arsenal; and this now demands a political stance from the sides threatened by "Israel", among which is the Lebanese government, and thus it is asked to inquire about the American intentions as it has become clear that U.S. is absolutely a direct partner in any future "Israeli" aggression.
Nevertheless, undertaking the protection of the "Israeli" Inner Frontline by the U.S. does not mean at all succeeding in treating the missiles controversy, for testing the readiness of the Inner Frontline is a part of the factors which Hizbullah Secretary General, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, talked about in his last speech on the fifth anniversary for the July War (2006). This test requires - in addition to evaluating the capability of "the Iron Dome" to handle the missiles of Hizbullah and the Palestinian resistance - deep reflection on the different levels of the protective elements inside "the "Israeli" community":
The individual level: The issue of distributing protective masks to the "Israelis" hasn't been given enough attention so far.
The familial level: Until now, the "Israeli" government's plan to support the relatively old buildings hasn't been successful. Besides, the local treatment imposing the law of constructing a protection room in every building constructed after 1991 is unable to confront the dangerous reality created by "the missile launchings" (which signifies the meeting of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nijad, the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus.)
The institutional level: Huge throngs as the ones present in schools and hospitals are meant, and this level is still really quarrelsome because of the different financial troubles that the hospitalization and teaching sector is suffering.
Public safety: This level's main controversy is that the official plan depends on the local authorities so as to avoid the high cost of managing and executing general, protective projects in return for intensifying efforts on providing protection for the military bases; this is based on the presumption that military bases and establishments are potentially more targeted by missiles in any presumed war.
In conclusion, "Israel" hasn't yet acquired the necessary level of "the nationalistic immunity", and the Inner Frontline doesn't seem able to handle catastrophes requiring rationing capacities and performing daily living tasks in exceptional circumstances.
As we speak of war estimations, such fact does not at all deny the probability that war might break out; neither does it mean that we should predict war in the near future, whereby estimating the presumed war has become dependent on a deterrence equation of a kind which is urgent in the history of military conflicts, and this kind doesn't necessarily submit to traditional criteria; this is exactly what "Israel" has grasped ever since it began reconsidering the morals of the July War; also this is what has been reflected by the scenarios on the base of which "the Turning Point 5 Drill" was made, whereby the presumption has been that the next war will break out upon the succession of several little incidents.
