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Chapter Two The 1948 war and the decade that followed remain vivid in my mind not just for the obvious reason: they secured the survival of the infant state of Israel and saw it into a more assured and independent young adulthood. It was also the time when I grew from a young ch...

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...

20 warrant and the PRISM slides, few of the other documents that Snowden had given Poitras and Greenwald for publication had little to do with either domestic surveillance or the infringements on the privacy of Americans. By the Lawfare Institute’s count, 32 of Snowden’s leaks t...

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

I would first need to get some experience in the regular army.