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2D request for assistance. Some or all of these satellite actors might choose to leave Iran to its fate, especially if initial U.S. strikes seemed devastating to the point of decisive. But their involvement would spread the conflict to the entire eastern Mediterranean and perhap...

with an immediate rolling and flowing start. The United States will have to work from smaller troop footprints and be prepared to start fighting even as follow- on-forces are on the way. Ideally, these forces would flow from multiple staging positions to reduce vulnerability to n...

…olution. Hosni Mubarak's regime branded the Bedouin, a largely nomadic and clan-based people, as outlaws who threatened Egyptian sovereignty. As his rule collapsed in February, and afterward, the Bedouins sought retribution against the security services that long oppressed them,...

… a technocrat government aimed at promoting national unity at this divisive time. Egypt: The second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on January 25" was marked less by celebration than it was by violence, culminating in a week of unrest that took the lives of more than 50 p...

…highlighted the danger of a surprise attack, potentially leaving us in a scramble to call up reserve units as Syrian or Egyptian tanks advanced on our borders. But the memory of Uri Ilan remained a haunting reminder of the risks of failure. My role, again, came down partly to ac...

…hout any accompanying political liberalization. Eventually, either a government will improve conditions for the average Egyptian, or it will become so repressive that mass action ceases to be a viable option. The third option is a total crackdown on any and all political movement...

…pacity but because of my on-the-ground experience, to accompany a sayeret team which installed an intercept on a second Egyptian communications cable. Though the tzalash was gratifying, what gave me more satisfaction, and pride, was the importance of the Sinai operations themsel...

…were aware of their existence that he had activated them, implying that his lack of concern about the possibility of an Egyptian was based on our intercepts. Because Dado was one of the people misled, his fall struck me as profoundly unfair. He had devoted his whole adult life t...

the Obama administration eventually came around to calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down

leading a joint armored force across the Egyptian desert to complete

it was back in Egyptian hands. The sprawling complex

the Egyptian constitution and the nature of its

or as the Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany

…o be told that none of our artillery batteries was within range. Realizing we couldn’t penetrate the front armor of the Egyptian tanks, he ordered a platoon from the rear to leave the road and fire on the Egyptians’ from their flank. When one T-55 was hit and started to burn, he...

…e deep sense of apprehension in Israel in the weeks before the war. Even now, it appeared, there was a concern that the Egyptians might reclaim the parts of the Sinai which we had captured. When the armored column got close to Gebel Libni, I pulled our Jeep aside and headed for...