Whenever you want to commit war you have a certain finite amount of spending power for man and resources. To be effective you can't be emotional, your aim should be to maximize at any given point the optimization problem of staying competitive in the warfare.
There's a whole line of mathematics derived from differential equations based on this here's an explanation of Lancaster Attrition by the Naval Postgrad School.
[–] 18657914? ago
Competing against European teams all but assures Israel will never qualify to enter the world cup.
Jesus Christ, yet another Israel expulsion to add to the list. Since they haven't qualified since 1970, which was in an easier confederation, we can thankfully write them off.
It seems even though they did get into the 1970 Tournament, they didn't do very well.
[–] 18657916? ago
Fortunately you're right and funnily enough, a few years ago they were subject of a motion to expel them from UEFA too.
[–] 18657920? ago
The 2026 world cup will be hosted in Canada, USA, Mexico. Just watch, there will be a special exemption mandated by the U.S. to permit Israel automatic entry to the tournament.
<Oy vey, the holocaust… it robbed us of future great jewish players. we could have won! we could have won 20 times! oy vey… give us a chance.