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…s in future conflicts. Six days into the job, I called together every officer in the army, from the rank of lieutenant-colonel up. I said we needed to remind ourselves of the army’s purpose: to protect Israel’s security and, if a war came, to win it. My budgetary rule of thumb o...

…overnment officials. At age twenty-nine, as head of the Astro- Electronics Division, | had the civilian rank equal to a colonel, but | looked like a young kid. It was embarrassing to take them to lunch and be carded by the waiter.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015428

…ove our operations. When I rushed back from Stanford at the start of the war, I was still just a 31-year-old lieutenant-colonel. I had spent two years in command of the equivalent of an infantry battalion. But I knew, and in many cases had worked with, the men at the very top of...

Now that we were in a fight —the single fiercest battle in Israel’s advance across the Sinai — Lieutenant-Colonel Eitan reacted swiftly. Standing tall amid the shellfire and the flames, he radioed for supporting fire, only to be told that none of our artillery batteries was withi...

… Yet with my intelligence brief, I was often the one with the most thorough command of the details. Though still just a colonel, I’d risen through Sayeret Matkal. I knew the planning process from the other side as well, having attended the same sort of meetings, from the early 19...