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unanticipated result was that I didn’t just play the field command

my old friend Raful Eitan. Raful did manage to

I had been making the case for a shift to more mobile and less

along with a few other senior officers including Dan

Arik offered me a promotion: a return to the kirya

force balance and funding for the Israeli military. A

assertive battlefield maneuvers he’d long championed. But

he made no effort to hide his enthusiasm for

1967 and 1973 – he knew the dunes and wadis and

but the political and military direction of our country.

hilly confines of Lebanon. And it was in Lebanon

the flanking maneuvers and ambushes and fighter jet attacks were like

the northern command’s regular division would

from the Hebrew words for Sinai and the Heights

200 tanks and dozens of APCs in a massive motorcade

played it like a virtuoso. “Did you hear what they called you?” he

the wider issues. From my experience as commander of

in a common room for all the village residents

even though he had a reputation for batting ideas back

in search of a “framework agreement” for final negotiations on