Israel will not enter into an armaments race with the Arab states in the wake of the mergers in the Arab world, but will concentrate on improving the quality of its armed forces whose superiority was demonstrated in the two wars in which Israel fought, Israel’s new Army Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Haim Laskov, told the foreign press association here today.
While he granted the superiority of the Arab states’ armaments, he insisted that the “human factor was most important” and that the Israel Armys training would become “more dynamic” as an answer to Arab superiority in arms quantity and quality. “You can be sure we will look after our frontiers,” the Chief of Staff promised. Gen. Laskov said that the navy’s equipment would be improved.
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