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Players/Postwar Intelligence Institutional History (Report #168)

Wingate & the Jewish Brigade

The British doctrinal parent

[Report #168] Early Israeli forces learned their trade from Britain: thousands of Haganah operatives served in the British Army's Jewish Brigade Group in WWII, and Orde Wingate's Special Night Squads (1936–39) stamped the early IDF's commando and counterinsurgency doctrine — a direct doctrinal carry-forward, filed high-weight (finding #168.004).