A LOOK AT lawfare in Israel. “While the soldiers and general public view the war as a failure, one sector of Israeli society sees the war as a great triumph. For Israel’s legal establishment, the war was a great victory. It was a war in which its members asserted their dominance over Israel’s political and military leadership. . . . Given the contrast between Mandelblit’s and Mazuz’s view of the war as a triumph and the public’s view of the war as a failure, it is worth considering whether there is a connection between the unprecedented ‘lawyerization’ of the war in Lebanon and the fact that Israel lost the war.” Lawyers are fine in their place. Which has its limits. Overlawyering war is likely to lead, over time, to the position that all laws of war are productive of defeat and the product of self-interested behavior by special interests. That is not a desirable outcome.