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Chapter Eight It was the same jumble of buildings in the same corner of the base where I’d reported a decade earlier, as a 19-year-old fresh from fironut, when the sayeret was still a gleam in Avraham Arman’s eye. Now, I was about to become the first of his successors to have be...

response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...

Jordan River from the West Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of...

Chapter Fifteen On the morning of April 1, 1991. I got up even earlier than usual, to visit the graves of the men who had lost their lives in my battalion in the Yom Kippur War. I also went to pay my respects to Uzi Yairi, killed when he’d rushed from his desk in the kiryva to j...

the FSA has carried out a number of symbolic attacks against the regime. And now the “shadow army

the FSA claimed an attack on an army convoy near Deraa

a U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a

I called together every officer in the army

and establish no-go perimeters around our army

it was occupied by the Red Army and forcibly

the US Army...”—National Security Agency

King Hussein’s army had defeated the insurgency of Fatah and a

terminate low-priority Army Corps of Engineers

the Iraqi army’s killing of protesters in

called the South Lebanon Army. This would rule out any hope of