The military on Thursday unveiled its new multi-year work plan, designed to increase its offensive and defensive capabilities sevenfold.
With an annual price tag of NIS 30 billion ($8.75 million) in military spending, the five-year plan, codenamed Momentum, aims to bolster the IDF air, ground, sea, and cyber capabilities, its intelligence superiority, and technological prowess.
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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi presented the plan despite the ongoing political turmoil in Israel, which is heading into its third general election in one year. Defense Minister Naftali Bennett approved the plan and presented it to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It will be presented to the cabinet for a vote next week.
Presenting the plan, Kochavi stressed the urgent nature of the threats Israel faced, saying "they won't wait" for Israel to resolve its electoral crisis.
Momentum focuses on strengthening the military's war readiness, placing an emphasis on the operational edge of the IDF's elite point units in all corps, upgrading the quantity and quality of the munitions used but the Air Force, and transforming the army into a deadly and multidimensional technological force across all spheres of battle, including cyber and electronic warfare.
Implementing this plan will make the IDF exponentially faster, more precise, and deadlier, Kochavi said.
Along with the complete overhaul of the IDF's technological and combat abilities, Momentum also rebranded the IDF Depth Corp its "Iran Directorate." The new division will focus exclusively on the threat posed by the Islamic republic, "dealing with surveillance, counter-tactics and strategy, and the planning of operations related to the Iranian nuclear program and Iran's military presence in Syria, including in the cyber and satellite fields."
Bennett noted Thursday that the plan "will allow the IDF to strike the enemy faster, more intensely, with a stronger destructive capacity, thus overcoming the enemy and bringing victory," Bennett said after approving the plan.
"The plan puts the principle of victory back at the top of the list of priorities," he said.
