In the WaPo, here
"....But the reality of war turned out to be far different from what he had expected. "I was really naive going into this war," said Mozer, who still looks the part of the soldier, with his muscular build and shaved scalp. "I thought that if the commanders were going to war, they must know what they're doing."
Instead, Mozer and his fellow troops received conflicting orders, inadequate protections and an inscrutable strategy. The goal was to stop the rockets, but Hezbollah's Katyushas continued to streak across the sky throughout the war's 33 days. Soldiers slept in the open in orchards that could turn at a moment's notice into fields of fire. Units were ordered into Lebanon, then hastily pulled back when they encountered the enemy.
While the war was ostensibly launched to save the lives of two Israeli soldiers who had been seized by Hezbollah, the troops that Mozer encountered expressed deep hurt at the lack of care that the military's leadership seemed to show for their lives.
"Somebody sent soldiers to die," a weary Capt. Reuven Saadon tells Mozer from the front seat of an armored Humvee as he drives back from Lebanon. "That is the clearest thing I can say."
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