Results for “Army Corp of Engineers”

… The news from Syria grows grimmer by the day— more peaceful protesters killed, ten thousand arrested in the past week, army units shelling residential neighborhoods. But the Obama administration’s response has not grown grimmer or louder. As recently as May 6, Secretary of Stat...

… Work Department, the CCP International Liaison Department, and United Front departments inside the People’s Liberation Army. Critical policies related to foreign affairs are formulated in these bodies. The same organizations are also involved in coordinating the implementation...

…controlled Mongolia for less than 18 months and that military effort was, ironically, financed by the Imperial Japanese Army. vi “Inner Mongolia has become China’s model of assimilation” by Hohhot and West Ujimqin, The Economist, 1 June 2017, http://www.economist.com/news/china/...

… politics, were yet to play themselves out. The hostage rescue was like a sugar rush, an intoxicating reminder that the army still had the capacity for initiative and precision, audacity and quick-fire victory — like our air strikes in the first hours of the 1967 War. But the rea...

…and miles away. And even if we could take out the terrorists, we were almost certain to face opposition from the former army colonel who ruled Libya, Mummer Ghaddafy. The chance of success seemed slim, the risks enormous. Soon, however, Kuti’s question ceased to matter. Later Su...

…ough its front group, the Islamic State of Iraq, which deployed combat teams in Fallujah last month that targeted Iraqi army positions and killed several soldiers. The jihadists’ black flags have appeared at Sunni protests and memorial ceremonies for the fallen. The group is back...

…substituted for letters. Making and breaking codes and ciphers became a crucial enterprise for nations. By 1914, the US Army and Navy had set up units, staffed by mathematicians, linguists and crossword puzzle-solvers to intercept and decode enemy messages. After the war had ende...

moshav of Za’arit. We equipped Yoni’s force with a pair of Land Rovers in Lebanese army colors and had them hide overnight in the moshav’s orchards, a hundred yards from the road on the Lebanese side of the frontier. The next morning, when we got confirmation the convoy was on it...

…ret. Still, the identity of the sayeret commander was known to just a few people outside the unit. So skittish were the army security people that before I’d left for Stanford, 146 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011617

…ies concerned with potential terrorist attacks. As a result, the inner sanctum of the NSA became more opened to its new army of civilian technicians. The universe of independent contractors was governed by very different forces than that of intelligence services. By 2013, much o...

… by sea. Dado nodded. I found out later that he’d asked the same question of Manno, who had proposed a classic regular-army raid. They would block the road with ten armed paratroopers on each end with the aim of holding off resistance, while another two dozen went in to the apar...

…the withdrawal as difficult as possible. They were also targeting our local surrogates, the Maronite-led South Lebanese Army militia. I’d been meeting regularly with Shaul Mofaz, the former paratroop officer who 337 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011808

…d been relying on American news reports and the relayed assurances from my parents, which she was seasoned enough as an army wife to treat with skepticism. I missed her badly, and little Michal. I felt the need to hear their voices. I drove to one of the brigade communications u...

…g elite rebel units, which has been drafted by Brig. Gen. Salim Idriss, the new commander of the opposition Free Syrian Army. In a letter dated Feb. 4, he seeks U.S. assistance in “training for: (1) special operations; (2) international humanitarian law; and (3)... in chemical we...

…hings”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” By 1914, the U.S. Army: National Security Agency, Pearl Harbor Review: The Black Chamber, NSA, 2009, https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage /center_cryptologic_history/pe...