This is John Batchelor, conversation with Seth Fransman, the Jerusalem Post correspondent in Israel.

On Gaza and on the North, Hezbollah.

Seth is at the foundation for the defensive of democracies as well on the Long War Journal.

Conversation about the North, about the announced underway exercises for the officers of the IDF preparing for combat in the

north in Lebanon. Seth explains how everyone needs a refresher course.

Hezbollah continues to salvo into Israel, causing casualties

leading to the evacuation of 80 to 100,000 Israelis from the border area.

And Hamas has not attacked, ground attack, but it does have hundreds of thousands of missiles that can rain down on all parts of Israel. So the

preparation underway in case to drive Hezbollah back across the Latani River.

Here's Seth Fransman, Drusum Post, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, explaining what we know now about the war of the North.

I mean if we knew anything that would probably be a bad thing. I don't think we want to notice you know if that was leaking they're going to go on an attack but I think that what we know is that Israel has been messaging a lot about being up for getting ready for an

offensive getting prepared what that means basically is this in the first month of the

war it was a big chaos in the north with was scrambling to send enough troops there to stop a Hezbollah

invasion that was Israel's worry was imminent.

And then there was a thought process to maybe, you know, preempt that, and then Israel decided to wait. And so the soldiers that were sent up,

there were reserve soldiers, they were taken off the line after about a month and a half or two months,

and they were trained. But they were trained, you know, in how to take villages and stuff that they had to, basically

refresh their memory at, you know, fighting in that environment. Now what's happened

is, you know, they've tried to do kind of, I brigade battalion division level training I think it's more to

refresh the commander and officers level as opposed to refresh the infantry who have been

refreshed I think it's basically to get the, you know, officers ready at the division and battalion and brigade and brigade level to exercise a big maneuver if they have to.

So that's, but the fact that they put out all that messaging seems to indicate you know they're

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