This is John Batcher, conversation with colleague David Dayoud of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy about Hezbollah.

The Israeli strikes, beginning with the handheld devices blown up remotely moving to the IAF bombing hundreds of

targets rockets rocket rooms commanders and yet the lesson of the last hundred years is air wars do not win

wars ground wars win wars when if the ground war to the Latani River beyond that what else needs to be done.

Here's David Dayoud responding to the quandary. More of this tonight.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you say air campaigns

and don't win wars. This is the lesson of the second Lebanon war where of all Israel's

military branches the Air Force performed spectacular but then they ran out of target.

And in terms of the bulk of Hezbollah's arsenal, which

are these kutusha rockets, these relatively short-range

projectiles, which continues to be the bulk of Hezbollah's

arsenal, in which they can do tremendous damage to Northern Israel. These are

launched from mobile launchers. Trucks, tripods, what have you, by the time the Air Force finds the

coordinates of the launch site, they're gone. So in order to stop that threat,

which could metastasize into firing of and lower estimates of 1,500 rockets a day at

northern Israel up to 4,000 to 6,000 more recent estimates rockets today fired at Israel

by point of comparison

throughout the second Lebanon war 34 days 4,000 rockets total were fired at

northern Israel you're going to have to have a ground invasion that pushes

these rockets out of range of Northern Israel.

That range is this man, you know, the Litani River, the 40 kilometer line that has been the

magic number for these rockets since the 1980 to South Lebanon invasion.

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