Aims of future posts

The background should by now be fairly evident for Israel in the early 1950s. Distended by swarms of largely illiterate, non-Hebrew speaking immigrants, many of whom were very young, the new nation found itself without a formal army capable of stemming the lawlessness and terror occurring daily on its borders. The solution was Unit 101. Questions to be addressed in future posts include:

• Who were the commandos in Unit 101?
• What operations did the unit conduct?
• What tactics, strategy, equipment, and training did the men learn, undergo, and use?
• What political and military aims did the operations have?
• What impact did they have on the citizens of Israel? Were the operations successful, both in the near-term and in the short-term?
• What impact did they have on the Arab population?
• How did they influence Zahal (the Israeli Defence Force) today?