Early that evening, we were ordered to rejoin Bren’s division to be ready for the crossing. When I reported that three of my soldiers were still missing, I was ordered to inform the commander of the battalion replacing us to find the missing men. The fight for the Chinese Farm wa...
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171 the country in 1994. Since entering government, Yang “has been a central figure promoting and helping to shape the New Zealand National government’s China strategy” and was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade from 2014 to 20...
165 the business community about the challenge presented by China’s economy and political system and its objectives. NOTES 1 The recent reports by ECFR and Merics/GPPI list some of them, but mainly deal with Europe in general: Francois Godement and Abigael Vasselier, “China at...
Chapter Three I reported for induction on the second Sunday of November 1959, three months short of my eighteenth birthday. Military service was a near-universal rite of passage for Israeli teenagers. For children of the kibbutz, it held even greater significance. Now that we ha...
…r space. “The Chinese are viewed as the source of a great many attacks on western infrastructure and just recently, the U.S. electrical grid,” General Alexander said in explaining the need for this consolidation. “If that is determined to be an organized attack, I would want to g...
“Tell Motta we know about it,” I said. “We’ve planned for it. It’s not a problem.” I figured there were at most four or five Lebanese soldiers manning the checkpoint. The last thing they’d want to do is get involved in a firefight between us and the Syrians. But Motta’s reply was...
to openly discussing his intention to form a “majoritarian government” that would exclude the most important Sunni representatives. In mid- December he participated in creating a Shiite grand alliance as the launching pad for that government. The principal Sunni political leaders...
response,” he said. “I’ve committed us. Ehud, I want you to check what can be done. Take whatever you need, from wherever you want. Bring me suggestions by seven tomorrow morning.” Then, he said, we would go brief the Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. I assembled a team the same w...
14 Syrian refugees are already sheltering inside Turkey, as are numerous Syrian army defectors. Possibly anticipating Syrian retaliation, the newspaper Hiirriyet reported that President Abdullah Giil recently warned Assad would pay a heavy price for stirring up trouble in Turkey...
Ashkenazim — and their prominence and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent —...
was always the principle of targeted force, the idea that we would take out targets, or defeat enemies, out of military necessity. But even on the first day of the war, it was clear that it would be by far the most consequential conflict in our country’s history. There was no mis...
up under a pile of mail. She hadn’t seen it until a week afterwards. She said that of course she would have come with me. She felt angry with herself, and with me too, for not simply having phoned. But since I didn’t contact her in the weeks that followed, she figured this was ju...
straight nights which replicated, as nearly as we could, what we intended to do across the border in the Sinai. It was as if we’d never been there at all. Yet there were the errors, setbacks and frustrations as well. Many months into our planning, we conducted a series of run-th...
In re: TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001., 2012 WL 257568 (2012) Aqua Securities, L.P.); Tradespark, L.P; and eSpeed Government Securities, Inc. (now known as eSpeed Brokerage, L.P.) have no parent corporation; BGC Partners, Inc., a publicly-traded corporation, owns more t...
/ BARAK / 15 By November, even his Foreign Minister, David Levy, was making noises about quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, abo...