The challenge of RMA 4.0 will be to bring tactical mobility back to the battlefield in order to enable maneuver. - Eran Ortal

One hundred years of air power led to the development of air platforms, air combatants and air command and control structures that are very difficult to integrate successfully into the ground battlefield at the lower tactical levels.

Every obstacle needs to be controlled by the defender through observation and fire. In the case of the challenge of tunneling, control by observation and fire means the IDF being able to disrupt digging activities and preventing the establishment of enabling infrastructure ahead of time.

"The height of a strategy is also the beginning of its demise"</ref></ref> (DCJ # 35 Hebrew, OCT 21)