The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “body whose purpose is to advance the operational thinking”. Today it says “military studies department of the israel defense forces aimed at operational level of war activities”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “An Israel Defense Forces military research and training department Center's Logo”. It now reads “Israeli military research and training department Center's Logo”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies in the Operations Directorate of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff is a body whose purpose is to advance the operational thinking (Operational level of war) and military stratergy in the IDF. At the head of the center stands a brigadier-general rank officer. The center (named after the late Chief-of-Staff David "Dado" Elazar) is charged with the development of the military campaign learning approach based on the broad operational approach and its assimilation in the IDF, and with assisting the General Staff and top IDF commands (regional commands, ground forces, etc.) in implementing it. In so doing, the Dado Center deals with the development of the fundamentals of operational learning in the IDF, assistance to the commands in their learning and thinking processes, and preparing officers in relevant posts in these fields.1
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
An Israel Defense Forces military research and training department Center's Logo The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies ( ) is a military studies department of the Israel Defense Forces aimed at operational level of war activities.It was named after rav aluf David "Dado" Elazar .Finkel, Meir [ he ] (11 June 2020)."AI Singularity and the Growing Risk of Surprise: Lessons from the IDF's Strategic and Operational Learning Processes, 2014-2019" .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
An Israel Defense Forces military research and training department Center's Logo The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies ( Hebrew : מרכז דדו לחשיבה צבאית בינתחומית ) is a military studies department of the Israel Defense Forces aimed at operational level of war activities. It was named after rav aluf David "Dado" Elazar . Finkel, Meir [ he ] (11 June 2020). "AI Singularity and the Growing Risk of Surprise: Lessons from the IDF's Strategic and Operational Learning Processes, 2014-2019" .
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Today
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body whose purpose is to advance the operational thinking
Now
military studies department of the israel defense forces aimed at operational level of war activities
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