This book was not initiated as an academic endeavor. It is based on ideasand notes accumulated during the spring and summer of 2003, while wewere working as a ‘red team’ for Lieutenant-General Moshe “Boggy”Ya’alon, then Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces(IDF). The point we do try to make in this book is that a great many deficiencies and irrelevancies present in the current linear mindseton force structure can not only be bypassed by the Diffused Warfareapproach, but can also be transformed into a far more effective war-fighting structure