ABSTRACT
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has promoted combat commanders after wars, as have many other armies. The wave of indiscriminate promotions by the IDF that took place after the Peace for Galilee War slighted hardly a single commander who had fought in the spring of 1982, and it is a good example of the reality that recurred after all of the preceding wars. Even the new chief of staff, whose predecessor had been in command during the war, preferred bureaucratic harmony and industrial peace to the disruption that would have ensued from a systematic and farreaching investigation of military failures. The inability to give clear organizational expression to the abstract concept of strategic success meant that the results of the Peace for Galilee War, like those of the Yom Kippur War, remained obscure. The political echelon did not decide to divide the war up among all the bureaucratic components of the armed forces.
