What do you mean, "bizarre"?
It's well known that the IDF refuses to use dismounted infantry to protect their wagons, and that they've turned cities into rubble and given themselves some of the same kind of problems that the Nazis had in Stalingrad.
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/military-rabbinate/
You'll also find interesting stories in israeli papers. Rabbis are important to the IDF because the state it is part of is based on religious convictions, and quite often there is no other justification for what they do.