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…e morally indefensible. Whether Assad can be overthrown soon by the people of Syria is a fair question to ask. Will the army stay with him, or will Sunni units rebel? Will the Sunni business elites turn against him? How long can the regime survive? We do not yet know the answers....

…published by The Guardian and The Washing- ® ton Post, what else had Snowden stolen? Within the next few days, a small army of forensic investigators from the FBI, the Defense Department, and the “Q” counterintel- ligence division of the NSA swarmed onto the NSA base in Hawaii....

…> See “Addicted to Oil: Strategic Implications of American Oil Policy” from the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army. The piece outlines 4 pillars to U.S. national interests: defense of the homeland, promotion of U.S. democratic values, creation of a favorable world order...

… some fashion or another, as long as it is connected. The old chestnut of military strategy, that a clever or desperate army can always “trade space for time” -make a gradual retreat in order to buy time, is nearly gone now. Space is a wall that can be breached by time manipulati...

…rite books, John Milton's Lost Paradise. Hell in this case would be the dear old Europe and its democratic values. The “army of darkness” is already among us. In Sacratissimo Corde Jesu et Purissimo Corde Mariae et Castissimo Corde Ioseph. is 2k 3s 2 2s 3g 2k Benjamin Harnwell...

… an expression again of how connection changes the nature of an object: It makes it controllable without possession. An army might be able to master an 198 Location: John May and Nigel Thrift eds. Timespace: Geographies of Temporality (London: Routledge, 2001) 2 199 Of course:...

…u may know the old saw of military parade evaluation: That the more magnificent a nation’s uniforms are the weaker it’s army usually is. But the gold-braided admirals of some three-ship navy reflect a very human need for security, and particularly for a self-decided feeling of se...

… tried to break the windows. Our meeting had already begun when he arrived. He had spent nearly as long as I had in the army, but he was shaken. Interrupting Rabin, he banged his fist on the table. “I’ve been on battlefields,” he said. “I’ve been shot at. I know how to read a sit...

…litary files. Many of these non-NSA files came from the Cyber Command, which had been set up in 2011 by the NSA and the army, navy, marine, and air force cryptologi- cal services to combat the threat of warfare in cyberspace. The loss was considered of such importance that betwee...

…de in the 1970s; and Amnon Lipkin, the paratroop commander at Chinese Farm and my successor as ramatkal when I left the army. Also, Shlomo Ben-Ami, the Moroccan-born, Oxford-educated historian and diplomat who had run against me for the Labor leadership. Shlomo had a gift for sys...

…nutes later, three other C-130s would fly in additional troops to secure the rest of the airport, deal with any Ugandan army resistance, and fly out the Israeli soldiers and the hostages. An operation on that scale naturally meant bringing in Dan Shomron. After I’d taken the pla...

…ned them. There was still fighting ahead, and we were part of it: taking out the SAM sites, engaging units of the Third Army and, with Sadat now pressing the Americans for a cease-fire and many Egyptian units clearly losing the will to fight on, racing against the clock to encirc...

…ims. New Zealand universities have partnerships with several Chinese universities linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), including the PLA Institute of Military Culture (Massey); the National University of Defense Technology (Auckland, Massey); Northwestern Polytechnic...

…nese support for the left-wing Japanese peace groups that have long investigated and published evidence of the Imperial Army’s war atrocities in the 1930s and 1940s. Such Japanese research has been politically useful for China in buttressing its own efforts to chronicle the suffe...

…intage halftracks. Our training battalion was based, alongside the country’s main armored brigade, in a huge, hillside army camp outside Beersheva in the Negev. I knew that our fironut — basic training — would be tough. That was the whole point. But we endured a seemingly endles...