Results for “War Horse”

… just two days before our final exercise in the Negev, would have agreed with the attack. After the victory in the Gulf War, Bush had deliberately stopped short of sending American forces on to Baghdad. He was also vice-president, under Reagan, when Israel had bombed Saddam’s nuc...

especially in the context of fear of war.

…tz. Though the water came from a well, and it lacked even the basic creature comforts of the cramped Godin apartment in Warsaw, that, to my mother, was just part of the challenge, and the dream, she’d embraced and had come to define her. I know that she felt, on arriving in the k...

…or of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival and American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). In The Sleepwalkers, a sweeping history of scientific thought from ancient times through the Renaissance, Arthur Koestler identified...

17 civil war, a Sunni fundamentalist takeover, or a new base for al Qaeda. Of course, there would also be an upside to Assad's demise. A brutal regime would have fallen; Iran would be denied an Arab patron and a critical window into Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli arena; Hamas wou...

…e invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea in 2014. To convince the Russian people that waging a form of low-intensity warfare against a neighbor was justified, Putin has stepped up efforts to depict the West as antagonistic to Russian interests, launched a campaign to label th...

281 CHAPTER THIRTY The Consequences for the War on Terror 1. “Because of a number of...”--Amy Davidson, “Don’t Blame Edward Snowden for the Paris Attacks,” The New Yorker, November 19, 2015 2. “None of the communications...”-- David Gauthier- Villars, “Paris Attacks Show Crac...

…crats” had come to represent. Using Lovelace’s Ordeal as a symbol of sexist repression, many feminists declared all-out war against pornography. The movie Deep Throat came to symbolize the anti-women evils of the sex industry. And I became the symbol of the “pornocrat lawyer,” ge...

… the fallout even worse. In Israel, the response was unlike anything in the past. There had been some opposition to the war: from parts of Labor, from political groups further to the left and particularly the pressure group Peace Now, formed in 1978 to protest the Begin governmen...

…weeks later, I think there were 5 million men in uniform and within 30 days there were over a million casualties. That war triggered a century of barbaric — unparalleled in mankind’s history — virtually 180 to 200 million people were killed in the 20th century, and I believe tha...

…play 1 Defense Spending Comes in Big Waves YoY % Change 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 (10) Nominal Defense Spending Vietnam War Reagan Buildup Iraq War (20) 64 72 81 90 98 07 16 Trump? Through September 30, 2016 Four-year moving average Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis and Haver A...

…orized the strikes against Syria Thursday night, the first direct US strikes against the regime in the country’s civil war. MORE... Lawyerin Dunki butter case: $90,000 payout ‘not actually profitable An attorney explained why a settlement paying $90,000 to lawyers, but just $5...

…c US technology acquisitions e Outright cyber theft e Foreign ownership restrictions Recent headlines that the trade war may be escalating to a cold war are not without merit, as we believe that US-China relations are changing on a more structural basis and will have a longer-...

…largest of Israel’s three invasion forces, under Yanoush Ben-Gal, head of the northern command until shortly before the war. We had 30,000 troops and 600 tanks and were responsible for the “eastern sector’ — from the edge of the Golan Heights, north through the Bekaa Valley along...

…rom 1939 until early 1942 when I was born, nearly two million Jews were killed. Six million would die by the end of the war. Almost the whole world, including the United States, rejected pleas to provide a haven for those who might have been saved. Even after Hitler was defeated,...