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Ep 53: May 1, 2026: The Long Road to October 7- Pt 3
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- May 1, 2026
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Summary
In Part 3 of The Long Road to October 7, Elliot Chodoff and Zev Uslan examine the military systems behind Israel’s battlefield performance: reserves, armor, logistics, professional culture, and the peacetime habits that can quietly weaken an army. The episode argues that October 7 cannot be understood only as an intelligence failure. It also has to be understood as the result of long-term institutional drift: the weakening of reserve readiness, logistical neglect, overreliance on metrics, and the difficulty of maintaining wartime effectiveness during decades of lower-intensity conflict.