Uzi Arad: Lebanon pager attack was ‘a surgical strike’

"What happened was not a coup de grace, but a method that we were forced to use to weaken Hezbollah and neutralize its offensive capabilities," the former head of Israel's National Security Council, former director of Mossad's research and intelligence division and former security adviser to Netanyahu, Uzi Arad, underlines to Kathimerini regarding Israel's attack on September 17 and 18 in which thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria.

"I must mention," the author and scholar adds, "that cyber capabilities and the use of artificial intelligence are affecting the battlefield in all its aspects. Some have called the new capabilities a revolution in intelligence affairs, as it has become apparent that the dependence of the armed forces on digital communications and fast computers...