02 March 2021

IDF rolls out multi-dimensional concept into officer training

by Yaakov Lappin

An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer’s course has for the first time incorporated training techniques shaped by the military’s new ‘Victory’ concept and the recently established Multi-Dimensional Unit (MDU), which combines elite infantry, armoured, engineering, C4i, intelligence, and air force elements.

Colonel Beni Aharon, staff commander at the IDF’s National Defense College and commander of the 8th Armored (Reserve) Brigade, told Janes the new three-month training programme came out of the ‘victory workshop’ held by IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi and meetings he had with all IDF major generals and many brigadier generals in 2019.

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