new air mobile division we’d planned to use against Saddam’s Scud launchers were likely to be a lot more important than tank formations in future conflicts. Six days into the job, I called together every officer in the army, from the rank of lieutenant-colonel up. I said we need...
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RLK: There's a lot of talk there might have been more countermeasures like selling treasury bonds or disrupting American companies. That hasn't occurred yet. China is sending signals that it's ratcheting down the escalation, not trying to escalate it. China has to respond. The go...
they even insisted I change my name. I was no longer Ehud Brog. I’d Hebraicized it: to Barak, which seemed near enough to the original. Among the few dozen outside the unit who did know about my role, however, were paratroopers who’d joined us on various missions. One of them now...
Omar Quadhafi is hunkering down in Tripoli giving press interviews denying that rebels are taking over Eastern Libya. Oil prices are shooting over one hundred dollars a barrel. The US government is on the verge of a shut down. These are not the top secret opening lines to Aaron...
From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Stephanie______________ 3/4/2011 11:15:40 PM Peggy Siegal• RE: Oscar diary Oscar story.doc Importance: High [email protected] Jeffrey, Peggy's story is attached to the e-mail. I have included the story in the body of the e-mail as well. T...
Though no one claimed responsibility, there was no shortage of suspects. During and since the civil war, Gemayel had at various times been at odds with a whole array of enemies or rivals: Muslim militias, the PLO, other Maronite factions and, of course, the Syrians. But I think f...
From: Stephanie Sent: 3/4/2011 11:15:40 PM To: Peggy Siegal Subject: RE: Oscar diary Attachments: Oscar story.doc [email protected] Jeffrey, Peggy's story is attached to the e-mail. I have included the story in the body of the e-mail as well. Thanks, Stephanie Omar Quadhafi i...
5/29/2019 Opinion | Trump Hands China an Easy Win in the Trade War - The New York Times If that’s what the Trump administration wants, its strategy has been a great success. If not, and the president really wants a trade deal, with reasonable decreases in the bilateral trade def...
11 facilitated,” they said, “by a clear statement of our ultimate goal. Indeed, this is the only way to build the kind of international trust and broad cooperation that will be required to effectively address today’s threats. Without the vision of moving toward zero, we will not...
37 primary sea lane to India. As such, Gibraltar and the Suez were crucial. The importance of the Suez was such that the presence of a hostile, major naval force in the eastern Mediterranean represented a direct threat to British interests. It followed that defeating the Ottoman...
Places like Bet El, Shiloh, or Hebron. They represented the historic wellspring not just of the state we’d created, but of Jewish civilization, our heritage, our moral and ethical foundation. As I drove back to Tel Aviv with Avraham and the others on the morning of fourth day of...
Now that we were in a fight —the single fiercest battle in Israel’s advance across the Sinai — Lieutenant-Colonel Eitan reacted swiftly. Standing tall amid the shellfire and the flames, he radioed for supporting fire, only to be told that none of our artillery batteries was withi...
another Israeli unit broke through to the Beirut-Damascus road. On the far side of Lebanon’s capital city, they linked up with Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists. I remember a mix of feelings at the time. Partly, amazement that through sheer determination and political maneuvering, Ar...
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From: Deepak Chopra Sent: 9/27/2016 12:32:41 AM To: Jeff Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: Donald Trump and the Looking-Glass War - SFGate Importance: — High http://m.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/Donald-Trump-and-the-Looking-Glass-War-9284330.php Deepak Chopra Ne...