I’m constantly hearing that Israel’s predicament is grave because it’s in a “two front war” now. I think Israel’s predicament may be grave — and it’s certainly very serious — but isn’t this bad military analysis? Israel has trained and prepared for multifront conventional wars with tanks against tanks, airplanes against airplanes, armies against armies. Indeed, they’ve fought — and won — a bunch of them. I find it hard to believe that the operations now underway are a major military threat to Israel in the conventional sense. I don’t mean to diminish the very real bloodsheed and hardship the current actions entail. But Hezbollah and Hamas are asymmetrical threats, right? The graveness of the situation, it seems to me, is political and potential. It surely could escalate into a real multifront war and it’s possible the region could take a big step backwards. But this is not what talking heads are implying when they talk about a two-front war. Or am I missing something?