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asked what he knew about the car outside. “Nothing,” he said. “It’s not mine.” They took it away. As insistently as I, and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture J...

sometime were. It called for mental application, an ability to assess risks, to find answers under enormous pressure when, inevitably, things went wrong. It required not just brawn, but brains. A week before I began my final year at Hebrew University, I went to see Eli Zeira, th...

In his new book, Bob Woodward writes about Colin Powell’ s status as an adviser to you. Referring to his previous book, Plan of Attack, the New York Times then reported that “Secretary of State Colin Powell disputed Woodward’ s account....He said that he had an excellent relation...

next century. How might Huang Hua, with his nature-of-the-age consideration of strategy have regarded the matter? What does gatekeeping tell us? The dominant view of future relations between Americans and Chinese generally runs along a nervously familiar historical track: An est...

the lead-up to Iraq's invasion in 1990. When faced with a build-up of Iraqi forces along its border, Kuwait decided not to mobilize its military out of fear that the move would provoke Saddam Hussein. The incentives for Gulf states to make similar strategic calculations in the fu...

to adapt on the ground. And obviously pleased that we’d found a way to make the operation work. The Sinai mission marked a transition not just for me, but for others in Sayeret Matkal as well. Avraham Aranan finally left the unit he’d imagined, created and built. He became the h...

/ BARAK / 37 was coping in his trademark military uniform. Still, the mood music going into the meeting was encouraging. After the election, Arafat had tried to use his ties with the ayatollahs in Iran to get them to release 13 members of the tiny Jewish community in Shiraz who...

/ BARAK / 25 1982 Lebanon War, with two sons fighting on the ground, he’d been a rare voice of common sense, and caution, in the Begin cabinet. I’d also seen him operate in Shamir’s inner security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief of staff, to present military operatio...

Administration and agenda Looking ahead to the Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, the focus will be on Trump’s top priorities: infrastructure, tax reform, dismantling the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and immigration reform. President-elect Trump highlighted...

The Scowcroft Group 900 17th Street, NW • Suite 500 Washington DC 20006 Phone www.scowcroft.com From: Kevin Neater Date: November 14, 2015 Terrorism - Metrojet and Paris Mark Externalization of ISIS Threat It has been a consensus view in the US and Europe that the dangers posed b...

MO: If Kurds have military confrontation with NAM, our response will depend on circumstances. Pawlenty: What lessons have we learned and what lessons has NAM learned? MO: NAM knows that when he leaves office, he could be prosecuted and put in jail. This will inform his actions....

/ BARAK / 52 was now chief of staff, to ensure we had a plan to get our troops out as quickly and safely as possible once the order was given. But complex though the operational issues were, that was not the most difficult part. The withdrawal had not just a military aim, but a...

Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You n...

the military power embodied by the Pentagon—had been hit. Sweets were handed out in East Jerusalem

the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review recently held that these prohibitions on terrorism are