A recent analysis by Al Jazeera suggests that nearly three years after the October 7 attacks, the relationship between political authority and military judgment in Israel has been upended. The commentary highlights that open clashes between ministers and senior officers have become almost routine, exemplified by a recent public disagreement between Defence Minister Israel Katz and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir over the detention of an extremist settler. The analysis argues this shift is more fundamental than a simple loss of discipline, revolving instead around who has the right to define victory, set war aims, and determine what is possible. It attributes this breakdown to four realities: the prolonged duration of the war, the absence of a shared definition of success, the divergence of human incentives between political leaders and military officers, and a reversal in who defines what is a