Israel to change army amid threats, budget problems

Zionist regime has decided to make some changes in its armed forces, the regime’s ‘defense’ minister says.

Moshe Yaalon said on Thursday the objective of the project was to cut away at costly traditional field forces in the short term as the regime struggles with budgetary problems and to increase its "technological advantage" over other regional armies in the long run.

Yaalon he wrote on his Facebook page "in light of the changes in the region and the abilities the army developed", the regime decided to "initiate significant reform".

Yaalon said he would continue to invest in "accurate munitions, intelligence, teleprocessing, active defence and cyber warfare". "The current and future battlefields are totally different from what we knew in the past," he wrote.

Reports in Israeli media spoke of reductions in the number of tanks, ships and planes, as well as firing thousands of career servicemen over the next year.

According to the reports, the plans will soon be brought before the cabinet for approval.

Yaalon also pointed to "the budgetary constraints of 2013-2014", which forced the army to do with less training and reserve duty.

The cabinet in May approved cuts of 3.0 billion shekels ($840.73 mln/648 mln euros) to the military budget.