A Bomb For All Seasons

It's pretty mind-boggling, watching the tempo of Israeli mechanized killing in Lebanon. Not something, one imagines, that could be thrown together just like that. There's no such thing as air war 'stone soup'. Now, it's true that the same munitions can have lots of different purposes but I think it's worth noting that last spring Israel began acquiring GBU-28 bunker buster bombs from the US, the first ever such sale to a foreign country. At the time it was thought they were meant for an Iran contingency, but the file needs to be flagged—it is certainly possible that what we're seeing today began with explicit, specific planning then.