Results for “PLA Institute of Military Culture”

…ely guarded secret, foreign newspaper reports in the weeks after the training accident made secrecy impossible. We were planning to infiltrate a Sayeret Matkal unit into Iraq, and to kill Saddam Hussein. The Gulf War had blunted any immediate threat from Iraq. But Saddam had pro...

…ncy that we had a workable military option to attack Iraq’s Scud launchers. By early November, I was dealing both with plans for distributing the gas masks and preparations for a possible military operation. So when I got a call asking me to report to Shamir’s office in Jerusale...

…s away. Still, as I accompanied the engineer back to the control tower, I tried to work out in my mind whether we could plan, prepare and train quickly enough to mount an operation to free the plane later that night. More than a dozen members of the unit had now arrived, and mor...

Article 3. Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post- Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahmy AUGUST 24, 2011 -- The landscape of Egypt's lawless North Sinai governorate is punctuated by the bullet-riddled, torched police station of Sheikh Zuweid, a densely populated town rou...

…h the ease of listning to a late-night baseball game. That target-shaped, “Just Aim Here” web of phone lines would be replaced by something far more distributed, harder to wipe out with a single Semyorka-7 missile shot. But this approach had problems too. It relied fatally on bro...

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… ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY work to degrade or destroy specific functionality (e.g., rewriting network routine tables, replacing plans, changing target information). Once the technology for ACWs exists for military targets, it seems likely there will be cross over into civilian u...

…, the 12" summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convened in Cairo on February 5“ with a number of key players in the region in attendance— among them President Giil of Turkey, Emir Hamad al-Thani of Qatar, and Saudi Crown Prince Salman. The summit aimed to discu...

…. “It’s Manno,” said the voice on the line. Brigadier General Emanuel “Manno” Shaked was Dado’s chief of operations. “A plane has been hijacked,” he said. “It’s heading for Lod. It will land in about 30 minutes. They’ve got hostages. Get to the airport. Dado and Dayan are on thei...

But comparison to the short-lived flowering of protests 40 years ago in Czechoslovakia is turning out to be apt in another way. For all the attention the Mideast protests have received, their most notable impact on the region thus far hasn't been an upswell of democracy. It has b...

…ions with Ido and Moshe. Our ammunition trunks were stowed under our beds. But the final piece of our arsenal fell into place in May 1958. For the tenth anniversary of Israel, there was a national exhibition celebrating the achievements of the state. I paid a first visit on my ow...

… What will happen next year if another such crisis erupts when U.S. troops are gone? The U.S. Embassy has an ambitious plan to deploy some 1,000 diplomats backed by 16,000 contractors to maintain a presence there and at several consulates around the country. But even if they pul...

…ary to shift its Israeli policy. Hamas in conflict with Israel as the United Nations votes for a Palestinian state also places Fatah on the political defensive among the Palestinians. Fatah cooperation with Israel while Gaza is at war would undermine Fatah, possibly pushing Fatah...

…things like the anti-missile weapons and, crucially, the challenge which had led me into Bibi’s government in the first place: keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. It was a race against time. The Iranians were producing more and more yellowcake, building more advanced cen...

…into Sabra and Shatila. And that they had begun killing people. I'd like to think that, in Amos Yaron’s or Amir Dori’s place, I’d have been sufficiently wise not to have allowed the Phalangists into the camps in the first place. But the truth is that I’m not sure. If the decisio...