____________________________________________ 12 IICC Perspectives D.: "I don't come to them like a nudnik, the 'annoying intel officer' with rolled-up maps while everyone else is zeroing their weapons and sharpening knives. I come and say, 'Make the effort, send me a picture on WhatsApp, and I'll send it back to you translated, deciphered.' I explain again and again that CED intelligence saves lives. Simply put, it saves lives. "When the maneuver began and the commanders saw that CED really did save lives at Hamas outposts, in camps, at all the first targets they hit, they started sending us material, and we delivered on our promise, we translated and sent it back via WhatsApp, via radio, through every means we had. They got the meaning or interpretation of every image they sent, in real time. They saw that we paid our dues. They invested, they made the effort, they sent, and they got answers. That gave them motivation to keep doing it again and again, until it became routine. Commanders understood you can't fight without a CED Unit. "Suddenly a battalion commander, right before heading into a target, is willing to let some kid from intel come brief the fighters on what to do with CED. A brigade commander who received life-saving material from us, at first he says, 'You guys were lucky.' The second time, he says, 'These guys are saving my life.' Suddenly he understands the value of what I bring him. "And from the brigade and battalion commanders it trickles down to the troops, to the fighters in the combat teams. It didn't happen overnight, but it happened. We put everything we could into it, myself personally and my people, who moved between the command posts. Later on, we embedded people from in the in every division and brigade HQ. Not intelligence officers, but CED veterans from previous iterations of the unit with techno-operational understanding of how to handle confiscated materials, and they know how to talk to commanders, not just intelligence officers. "They know how to convince an operations officer or a brigade chief of staff to invest in material collection using the logistics convoy or a designated supply run. They also know how to coordinate CED efforts around special combat events. For example, we found an enemy server farm and placed people who knew how to handle it and the computers we found there, to disconnect them without losing the data they contained." "The maneuver began, and the commanders saw that CED really did save lives. They saw it at Hamas outposts, in camps, and at all the initial targets they struck." "That was the case for the forward effort. Our people were out there with the forces, collecting material, transporting it or to guiding and maintaining awareness. Awareness must constantly be maintained: commanders are killed, commanders rotate, fighters change, and each front behaves differently. What you see in Gaza looks completely different from Judea and Samaria, from Syria or Lebanon, because of the enemy, because of the terrain and because of the material itself. A phone from Gaza isn't a
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