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activities. The Majlis al-Shura considers all elements of the group's activities, including its political and military wings, as part of one holistic entity. According to Hezbollah's top officials, this unity of purpose among the group's diverse activities is essential to its su...

170 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Russians Are Coming "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."—Vladimir Putin In the first invasion of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea...

…ration, after all, not a prom date. But I did wear heels. So yes, a woman, of sorts. Yet some of the stories were just plain myth. I had given up counting the times I’d heard about my alleged prowess in recording the fastest-ever time on the most gruelling of the Israeli army’s...

…arsenal of new tactics to use against their domestic opponents, and gone on the offensive in an effort to subvert and replace the liberal international order. But modern authoritarian systems are not simply adversaries of free societies. They also represent an alternative model—...

…rmally returned to Sayeret Matkal. Both Nava and I were aware of the additional pressures my military commitments might place on our family life. But she understood why I’d chosen to go back, and was supportive. As for me, I was, if anything, more certain that I’d made the right...

…ase-fire to halt Palestinian Katyusha rocket fire into Israel. It was generally holding. But fundamentally, Arik’s war plan was not a response to the Katyushas. It was a way of using military force to achieve Prime Minister Begin’s political aim: stopping the Camp David peace pr...

narrow maritime confines like the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf. But the likely proliferation of nuclear weapons -- and ballistic missile delivery systems -- will pose even more formidable challenges to conventional military surges in the region. In the future, t...

… Kk Americans may be weary of conflict in the Middle East and South Asia, but strategic prudence demands that we contemplate future military interventions in the Central Command theater. A scan of the horizon reveals that both political and military trends in the region pose for...

Mubarak in his time of need in early 2011. Their leaders expected the United States to push for Mubarak and the Egyptian military to crack down on public protests in Cairo. After all, American policymakers during the Carter administration had at least given this policy option con...

/ BARAK / 144 was off the agenda. The diplomatic process with the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. Du...

… produced a clamor for change. When a vote for party chairman was held in June 2007, I was chosen to return in Peretz’s place. Within days, I replaced him as Defense Minister as well. Yet the main item in my in-box would no longer be Lebanon. I had been briefed a few weeks earli...

…at morning with just two men per car, each vehicle missing their rear gunner. The SUVs were only outfitted with a steel plate as extra armor. And the men had not been given maps." (p. 305). Starr went on to defend Jeffrey Epstein abasing allegations of child sex trafficking - "A...

…ntractors working in the intelligence community before CIA could inform the rest of the IC about its worries,” Morell explained. “He even got a pay raise.” Obviously, this was a glitch in the security system but, as a result of it, Snowden entered the NSA by the back door only fi...

Chapter Sixteen Rabin had inherited a peace process, put in motion by the Bush Administration after the Gulf War. But since both Prime Minister Shamir and our Arab enemies had reasons of procedure, politics or principle to resist the talks, merely getting them off the ground had...

28 Intelligence Agency that the military files compromised by Snowden included documents bearing on military plans and weapons systems; foreign government’s intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources, or methods or cryptology; Scientific and te...