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(IsraelNN.com) The Winograd Committee pointed to the "poetic" terminology used by then-commander of the IDF's Northern Division, Lt.-Gen. Gal Hirsch, as a symptom of the systemic communications problems in the military at the time of the Second Lebanon War. Some of Hirsch's subordinates were familiar with the terminology and understood it well, but others had difficulty making sense of it, the committee found.

The terminology used by Hirsch included phrases like "low signature large scale infiltration (wasp cloud)," as well as "neutralization, capture and imprisonment of the space, and its systematic dismantlement through simultaneous and multi-dimensional swarm attack."

"There is no doubt that the language employed by the Division Commander was creative. Some described it as poetic," the commission noted. "In part, this was language that began to be employed as part of the new systemic concept" in the IDF, it said.