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…im that he represented a group of disillusioned officials in Russia that included key members of the secret police, the army, and the Interior Ministry. Yakushev said that they all had come to the same conclusion: the Communist experiment in Russia had totally failed and needed t...

…nds of PLO fighters or Syrian commandos in Lebanon, had hardened my conviction that Israel needed a leaner, more mobile army, with more specialised strike units, as well as more easily targeted, less vulnerable weapons systems. I wanted to shift the emphasis to weaponry that reli...

…tween 1,000 and 1,500 Israeli troops in open alliance with a local Maronite Christian militia, called the South Lebanon Army. This would rule out any hope of working out security arrangements with the non-Christian majority in the south. I tried to persuade Rabin we should withdr...

…ated a Hong Kong version of a color revolution.” —Gen. Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff, People's Liberation Army, March 2015 “Various human rights organizations, think tanks, and simple NGOs of the U.S. and its allies in Europe, concealing their true goals, have esta...

…d was a determination to set ourselves specific goals and do everything we could to achieve them. I promised to get the army out of Lebanon. With the Palestinians, I arrived in office convinced that the process begun in Oslo was both a huge opportunity and a potential dead-end. I...

…o visions and control creates a different sort of firm than a boss who moves among his employees nearly as an equal. An army that moves from the top down is different than one that lives, as Mao said of the Chinese guerilla forces that mastered the country against steep odds in 1...

… agreed that I could return to Stanford, to finish what I’d barely begun when the 1973 war broke out. I had been in the army, with the one hiatus as a sayeret reservist at Hebrew University, since the age of seventeen. I did not regret committing myself to a life in uniform. But...

…erapies. In the early nineties, he served as the director of the Medical Research Fellowship Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in Washington, D.C. He went on to run the Office of Alternative Med- icine at the National Institutes of Health, from 1995 to 1999....

…ering peace. I was accused of relying too much on a close circle of aides and negotiators I’d known from my time in the army, of not giving a negotiating role to Labor veterans of the Oslo negotiations like Yossi Beilin, and of being insufficiently sensitive to Arafat’s needs in...

…osed. = US DoD: Last week several of us took our prototype device to be demonstrated for the US military’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). At the conclusion of a four-hour session our host, Colonel Colin Ohrt, MD, who is in charge of the relevant WRAIR program,...

…e Hizbollah attack, and just before it was due to convene, my phone rang. It was Shimon, who, though with no first-hand army experience, did at least have the political experience in war that none of Olmert’s other ministers could offer. He’d been by Ben-Gurion’s side during the...

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…nen- cumbered by the legislative branch. An astonishing one in six Americans believe it would be acceptable to have the army rule. And with each passing genera- tion, a smaller share of U.S. citizens believe that living under a democracy is important.’ 1. “Prime Minister Viktor...

…st meeting, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He looked first at Raful, then at me, and added: “When I was 20 ye...

…O does not take office until the end of the year. Brazil: The strong showing of Jair Bolsonaro, a law-and-order former army captain, in the first round of elections and the latest data that points to a 75% probability of Bolsonaro becoming the next president of Brazil has provid...