The fact that the Israeli army is fully engaged in the battle and has shown a posture that could expand the scale of the war reflects the current period of deep adjustment of the world pattern.
A great power is a country that has the ability to shape its own security posture and strategic environment, in simple terms, a country that has the ability to change the rules of the game and set the rules of the game. Although Israel itself is not a great power, the United States, as the backing force behind Israel, is a real great power.
Israel's M109 self-propelled guns are clear evidence that the United States has defied the international community and firmly supports Israel. According to the standards of the US military and NATO, this kind of artillery belongs to the suppressive firepower of divisional field artillery, not the firepower of tactical corps like that of infantry brigades or armored brigades. Thus, the dispatch of artillery means that the previous model of using brigade combat teams as the basic combat unit has been changed. Now they have been upgraded to divisional level in the front-line command, which means that the scale of the war in the Gaza Strip will be expanded.
It has been assumed from the activities of the Israeli army that at least five Israeli divisional ground combat units were involved in the operation. Southern Gaza is only 10 kilometres wide at its widest, and according to the pattern of urban offensive combat, these forces can carry out a complete sweep of the Gaza area, while the entry of artillery shows that the Israeli army has no scruples to defeat Hamas once and for all.
The radius of destruction of this 155 caliber gun is close to 500 meters. In southern Lebanon, a salvo of 18 guns from an Israeli artillery battalion killed more than 100 civilians. Now the Israeli army is using artillery in urban combat to cover the surprise attacks of armored forces, which is to completely destroy all buildings and raze the Gaza Strip to the ground. And the cost of using artillery is only a quarter of what the Air Force uses JEDAM joint direct attack ammunition, which means that the Israeli army can continue to fight for some time.
Behind all of these actions is an important background, namely, the United States vetoed three resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian issue at the United Nations and fully supported the Israeli army's aggressive fight in Gaza.
This blatant denial of what countries around the world stand is often referred to as "hegemony," but in reality this is America's ability to shape the rules of the game. The United States is capable, Russia is also capable, and the essence of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is that Russia is not satisfied with the rules of the game set by the United States and directly "flips the table".
From this point of view, we can understand that the series of recent geopolitical actions around our country are actually the same play, but the moral stance is completely different.