Israel’s New Methods of Warfare

The Big Picture. 21st Century Combat

RT (2025)

Film Review

https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/2166-the-big-picture-21st-century-combat

This is a Russian language news analysis program about the use of advanced mass surveillance in Israel’s wars on Gaza, Iran and Hezbollah. Israel has complete control of the mobile phone messaging and payment platforms for all of Gaza’s two million Gaza residents. In addition to all the phone data they collect, they also employ heavy drone surveillance and Lavender System AI to monitor frequent changes of phone numbers, address changes, etc. They claim this helps them identify members of Hamas. However Russian military-intelligence analysts question how efficient this is when Israel kills hundreds of women and children to assassinate two Hamas commanders. This amounts to a 0.9 efficiency ranking.

Russians analysts blame this largely on the slipshod way IDF officers enforce quotas. It’s typical for IDF commanders to require their squads to kill 100 targets in specified period. When they can’t find 100 Hamas leaders, they’re allowed to meet their quota by killing civilians.

The most interesting topic discussed was the Mossad’s success in infiltrating the highest level of Iranian defenses prior to the Israeli attack in June. Most of the operatives the Mossad recruited in Iran were Afghani and Ukrainian refugees given asylum by the Iranian government. When the Taliban took power in 2021, approximately 19,000 British and US trained Afghan government and intelligence operatives fled Afghanistan fearing retaliation from the new government.

Many were extremely disgruntled by the drop in income they experienced. Prior to the Israeli attack in June, 80% of Iran’s rubbish collectors were Afghani refugees. This put them in a superb position to collect information on their customers. The broadcast includes a video clip of Afghans arrested for spying for Israel describing the Mossad Farsi website that recruited them(Farsi is widely spoken in both Iran and Afghanistan),

Since the 12-day war, Iran has expelled 500,000 Afghan immigrants and built a concrete barrier on the Iran-Afghanistan border.

The panelists also explain how Israel managed to set up a secret drone base inside Iran. Apparently it requires little technical expertise to deploy mobile drone launching trucks. Coincidentally these specialized trucks were first tested in Ukraine (with the assistance of Israeli advisors) 12 days before Israel used them in Iran.

The panel discusses the role of the IAEA in streaming videos inside nuclear facilities (using Palantir technology) to assist the Mossad in identifying the Iranian nuclear scientist Israel subsequently assassinated.

Lastly they explain the US Pentagon Pizza Index, which revealed an increase in empty bars around the Pentagon during late on June 12 and 13, during the initial Israeli attack on Iran. It’s rumored Russian intelligence uses this information to anticipate major large Pentagon offensives.