Israeli Ground Operation in Gaza to Feature Fierce, Protracted Fighting, ex-CIA chief Explains

Any potential Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip will be protracted, dragging on for years, and will feature fighting fiercer than what faced U.S. troops in their 1993 assault on the Somali capital of Mogadishu, former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director David Petraeus said. The ex-intelligence official said that his personal experience of leading armies engaged in brutal counterinsurgency campaigns should serve as a cautionary tale for Israel should it decide to launch a ground invasion. “You don’t win counterinsurgencies in a year or two. They typically take a decade or more, as we saw in Iraq, as…