Reply #4: It's a simpler reason actually. [View All]

[Kagemusha]

The IDF has been out of Lebanon and messing with Gaza etc. for so long that its training and priorities have altered to fit occupation rather than being a field army. Hardly completely. And if Hezbollah had a tank division it'd be a smoking ruin in very short order. But, Hezbollah doesn't, and doesn't want one - it's playing to IDF weaknesses as well as possible. Given that, and given the problems even IDF crack units (read: Golani Brigade) have had, it's not purely a matter of their being hard-up reservists: the mission is hard for troops in ANY modern army.