Kammala wannan jumla: Abin mamaki na Yom Kippur War da sakamakonsa gaba ɗaya ya canza hanyoyin IDF da kuma tsarin yaƙi. An yi canje-canje na ƙungiya kuma an ba da ƙarin lokaci ga horo don yaƙi na al'ada. Koyaya, a cikin shekaru masu zuwa, rawar sojojin ta sake canzawa a hankali zuwa rikici mai ƙarancin ƙarfi, yaƙin birni da yaƙi da ta'addanci. Misali na karshen shine nasarar 1976 Operation Entebbe commando kai hari don 'yantar da fasinjojin jirgin sama da aka sace da aka tsare a Uganda. A wannan lokacin, IDF ta kuma gudanar da nasarar kai harin bam a Iraki don lalata makamashin nukiliyarta. Ya shiga cikin yakin basasa na Lebanon, ya fara aikin Litani kuma daga baya yaƙin Lebanon na 1982, inda IDF ta kori ƙungiyoyin 'yan tawaye na Falasdinawa daga Lebanon. 'Yan bindigar Falasdinawa sun kasance babban abin da IDF ta fi mayar da hankali tun daga lokacin, musamman a lokacin yakin basasa.
Intifada ta farko da ta biyu, Operation Defensive Shield, Yakin Gaza, Operation Pillar of Defense, Operation Protective Edge, da Operation Guardian of the Walls, wanda ya sa IDF ta canza yawancin dabi'unta kuma ta buga IDF Spirit. Ƙungiyar Shi'a ta Lebanon Hezbollah ta kasance wata barazana mai girma, wadda IDF ta yi yaƙi da rikici tsakanin 1982 da 2000, da kuma cikakken yakin basasa a shekara ta 2006.