Israel's Army Chief For The North: Hezbollah Is In 'Strategic Distress'

Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Director of the IDF Military Intelligence, Speaking at the 12th Annual Herzliya Conference in 2012.

Business Insider/Times of Israel: Senior IDF officer: Hezbollah is in 'strategic distress'

Nine years after the Second Lebanon War, the army’s chief commander in the north said last week that a future round of fighting against Hezbollah will be conducted across two fronts.

“It’s clear to me that the next campaign against Hezbollah will take place in Syria and in Lebanon,” said OC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi at an evening devoted to the situation in Lebanon held at the IDF Galilee Division headquarters.

Kochavi, as quoted by the army’s weekly news magazine Bamahane, described this new security reality as “a small dot” amid the sea changes in the region.

WNU Editor: 6,000 to 8,000 Hezbollah fighters in Iraq/Syria/Yemen is still a small percentage on what Hezbollah is capable of deploying .... but with the conflicts in Syria and Iraq now in a quagmire and with no exit strategy in place .... the prospect of being in a war that may last for years must be putting a considerable amount of strain within the organization and especially within its military wing.