Ne'eman.

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Follow up on the previous blog concerning Israeli high technology.

From the book:

"The Spymasters of Israel"

"work done by one of the most remarkable men ever employed this intelligence service [AMAN? Israeli military intelligence] or any other had reached the point where it could be put to daily use. The man was Yuval Ne'eman, a highly distinguished Israeli scientist, now a professor of physics at Tel Aviv University . . . Ne'eman was not the first intelligence man to understand the uses of the science of computerology and high technology in the world of espionage. But he was the first within any service in the world, save perhaps the Russians, to have the mind and the background to design equipment or himself have equipment designed specifically to meet the needs of this some arcane profession . . . . Future wars, he predicted, would be won by electronics . . . Between wars, a government required constant surveillance of the potential enemy . . . but electronic watch stations, which would keep the borders under constant observation and detect the smallest movement for analysis . . . an investment of many millions of dollars in hardware which he freely admitted would be outdated every five years . . . In any case Ne'eman was given the money and the resources. Within a few short years, perhaps only the Americans could match Israel's impressive computer-linked electronic warning system. Much of Ne'eman's work was original. It was he who invented the system of the computerized tracking of submarines. NATO's northern and southern boundaries are protected by his electronic watch stations, first erected in the Sinai by Israeli forward patrols who went into the desert to bury sophisticated equipment to serve as an early-warning alarm system for any unexpected Egyptian movements . . . The system was modified and refined until it was as sophisticated and advanced as similar systems anywhere in the world, and certainly far out-stripped anything possessed by medium-powers like Great Britain and France."

What is being described here is something analogous, but deployed earlier, and more sophisticated than, the Igloo White "project" used by American forces in Vietnam??!! Ground based sensors, tied by radio links, relay stations, computers, etc. Detect movement of ground troops, give warning and alert, well ahead of actual contact and combat.

Igloo White was at the time, American technology, cutting-edge stuff. At the time of the Vietnam War, the largest building in ALL of southeast Asia housed the main central control point for Igloo White!!

"far out-stripped anything possessed by medium-powers like Great Britain and France."

YES! Absolutely! "Igloo White . . . American technology, cutting-edge stuff". Yes, that too. But perhaps, preceded by Israeli technology of Yuval Ne'eman!!??

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