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2026-10-16 Science & Technology

US Army urges adoption of Israeli battlefield medicine as IDF cuts casualty deaths by half - report

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1 "Israeli Battlefield Medicine." What could these people possibly know ?

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2 Maybe they use AI (SI)? /sarc...kinda

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-10-16 07:50|| 2026-10-16 07:50|| Front Page Top

3 Israeli Defense Force Medical Lessons Learned

Since the morning of October 7th, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel National Police, and other security forces have been involved in a wide spectrum of active combat operations that have spanned the range from Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) to internal security and stability. Prior to the war the Israeli medical services had some significant differences to their U.S. counter parts but shared many of the same assumptions and approaches. The attacks on October 7th provided a shock to the system and forced transformation in contact. Since then, the process of transformation has continued. Although there are some differences between the operational environment in which Israel has fought and the future fight envisioned by the U.S. Army, Israel’s wars continue to provide a critical real world battle lab from which there is as much to learn now as when observations of the 1973 War transformed U.S. Army Doctrine. This is as true for military medicine as for other arms.

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-16 09:51|| 2026-10-16 09:51|| Front Page Top

4 The Army did a 'big' lesson learned from the 73 October War. Up till then they were basing loss calculation estimates on WW2 numbers. What the 73 war showed was that the lethality of the battlefield had increased logarithmically with contemporary weapon systems. It would spend the rest of the 70s revising its entire doctrine and planning. We sometimes pay attention.

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5 Didn't the army MASH units already reduced the causality rates during the Korea war?

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