Pour archives : 11 août 2006, Timur Goksel pense que si Israël ne parvient pas à détruire les capacités de commandement et de contrôle du Hezbollah, c’est parce que celui-ci n’a pas besoin d’une telle structure centralisée. (Mais depuis 2008, on sait qu’il y a un réseau de communication terrestre spécifique.)
Asia Times Online - Hezbollah’s lack of structure its strength
►http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH11Ak03.html
RFE/RL: A common strategy in wartime is to disrupt the command-and-control capability of the enemy. But Hezbollah seems to have survived almost a month of heavy Israeli bombing. How does the militia remain effective on the battlefield?
Goksel: They don’t work in military hierarchies or military command levels. They don’t have anything like that. There is one leader in Beirut and all the other units in the field are autonomous, they know what they are doing [by themselves]. They don’t need communications, they don’t report everything, they don’t ask for orders, they know what they are doing.
There are small units of not more than 20 men, and most are local people. They operate on their own, they don’t need supplies. They are very independent. That makes it very difficult to catch them, of course.