Where Dan appears
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…cautions. The obvious first step would be to distribute gas masks. But in a series of meetings with Misha and Dan, I emphasized this was not a decision that could be taken in isolation. By handing out gas masks, we might actually raise the...
puty chief-of-staff under Moshe, the latest step in what was beginning to look like a steady rise to the top. But Misha did make a few concessions to Moshe’s preferred candidates, and that now turned out to have major implications for me. I...
… But I still felt hesitant. “T want you to consider two things,” I said. The first was a formal decision that Dan would have only a single deputy during his time as chief-of-staff. He said yes to that. Yet the second request was going to be...
…understood, and I did. In his position, I would have felt exactly the same way. But for a variety of reasons, Dan wanted me in command. Still, I stressed my determination not to detract from his authority. Yoni would lead in the main assaul...
along with a few other senior officers including Dan
which Dan had set for nine o’clock on Friday
…to face down Saddam and force him out of Kuwait. Given the credible threat of Scud missile attacks on Israel, Dan immediately assigned me to coordinate our assessment and evaluation of what Saddam was likely to do in the event of a US-led a...
…ot let dozens of hostages be murdered if by talking, even deal-making, we could have saved them. He turned to Dan and asked whether there indeed was a military option with a reasonable prospect of getting the hostages out. Dan said yes. Rab...
to have missed out on the job four years earlier. Not only had Dan
even though Dan and I — and Rabin too — would soon face by far
and asked him about Dan. “He’s our best current philosopher—the next
Dan. ""Anthropology and psychology: Towards an
