Isreali warfare

[Watchman]

I remember the Holy Land History Channel thing...

What it mentions was that the Israeli's fully appreciated their lack of heavy infantry, and to counter this they used light troops (both missile and lightly armored) to encourage the Philistines into rough ground where they would suddenly surround and annihilate them.

Sounds like solid "light tribal army" approach. Do you incidentally recall the timeframe given for that ?

The episode on the Exodus as a military campaign is very interesting itself including the placement of the Israelites as a documented composition of Egyptian fighting effectives in the north, but my favorites were the chronicles of the conflicts with the Hittites.

Were there even by that point any Hittite powers around save for some lingering remnants that hadn't gotten stomped over, looted and burned during the Catastrophe...?