Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - Ko te ohorere o te Yom Kippur War me ona paanga i whakarereke i nga tikanga a te IDF me te huarahi ki te pakanga. I mahia nga whakarereketanga whakahaere, a he nui ake te wa i whakatapua ki te whakangungu mo te pakanga noa. Heoi, i roto i nga tau e whai ake nei, ka neke haere te mahi a te ope taua ki nga pakanga iti-nui, te pakanga taone me te whakahee-rori. He tauira o te whakamutunga ko te angitu 1976 Operation Entebbe commando whakaekenga ki te whakaora i nga kaihihi rererangi i mauheretia i whakaraua i Uganda. I tenei wa, i whakahaeretia e te IDF he kaupapa pahū angitu i Iraq ki te whakangaro i tana pūkaha karihi. I uru ia ki te Pakanga a-iwi o Repanona, i tiimata te Operation Litani, i muri mai ko te Pakanga o Repanona 1982, i peia ai e te IDF nga whakahaere guerilla o Palestine mai i Repanona. Ko te whakaeke Palestinian te kaupapa matua o te IDF mai i taua wa, ina koa i te Pakanga Tuatahi
me nga Intifada Tuarua, Operation Defensive Shield, te Pakanga o Gaza, Operation Pillar of Defense, me te Operation Protective Edge, na te IDF i whakarereke i te maha o ona uara me te whakaputa i te IDF Spirit. Ko te whakahaere Shia Lebanese Hezbollah he raru nui ake, i whawhai ai te IDF ki tetahi pakanga kore i waenga i te 1982 me te 2000, tae atu ki te pakanga nui i te 2006.