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… I don’t think we are missing a major war.” “What’s this we?” I said. Motta was a general, at the upper reaches of the armed forces, officially posted to Washington. I was a young officer, just starting to work my way up the chain of field command. “I can’t afford to miss even a...

…it 101 and Company A, we had been steeped in the spirit of commandos. Our training was the most rigorous in the Israeli armed forces, involving not just a punishing endurance régime but learning to assemble and disassemble, fire and detonate, everything from handguns to machine g...

… foreign investment and "freelancers." 8. The most important or most visible institutions in Cuban society, such as the Armed Forces and the Assembly of the People's Power, appear to fully support the steps taken by the president, General Rail Castro, in the direction of a re-enc...

…s later, Arik offered me a promotion: a return to the kirya, as a two- star general, to become head of planning for the armed forces. I don’t know why he chose me: the Sinai exercise perhaps, the fact he knew I'd studied “large and complex organizations” at Stanford, or maybe ju...

…ground in the kirya. Usually, it functioned as the day-to-day operations center. But it was where the commanders of the armed forces operated during times of war. At officers’ school, we’d heard and read about the importance of throwing the enemy “off balance”. Now, we were the...

…d than ever. Two years after the revolution, a significant part of Libya remains under the control of the militias, the armed groups who did not cease power even after the parliamentary elections and continue to use force against the government. The situation is even worse in I...

…ly, it simply wasn’t going to fly. “Drop it, Ehud,” he said. So I did. Still, I did end up fundamentally retooling the armed forces during my time as chief of staff. We developed agile new strike forces and high-precision, high- tech weapons systems with “stand-off” munitions de...

…ground in the kirya. Usually, it functioned as the day-to-day operations center. But it was where the commanders of the armed forces operated during times of war. At officers’ school, we’d heard and read about the importance of throwing the enemy “off balance”. Now, we were the...

… I don’t think we are missing a major war.” “What’s this we?” I said. Motta was a general, at the upper reaches of the armed forces, officially posted to Washington. I was a young officer, just starting to work my way up the chain of field command. “I can’t afford to miss even a...

…, we were facing another problem. The battalion nearest to the south of the triangle had spotted a dozen large vehicles armed with missiles a few hundred 199 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028047

…he invasion was for, how it had been planned and prosecuted, and what it said about our country, our government and our armed forces. I was at home with Nava, watching the coverage of the demonstration on television. I shared the protesters’ view that an inquiry was needed. In t...

…way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world against its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide mo...

CIO WM Global Investment Office CIO monthly video www.ubs.com/cio-video For smartphone users: scan the code with an app like "scan" UBS CIO Monthly Extended November 2012 Published 25 October 2012 This report has been prepared by UBS AG. Please see important disclaimers and disc...

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2] interpretation by experts employing various explicit or implicit models, the most prominent of which casts the regime as a “rational actor” that calculates risks and rewards like any Western state. In this model the highest goal is regime survival, a notion that doesn’t neces...