In his new book, Bob Woodward writes about Colin Powell’ s status as an adviser to you. Referring to his previous book, Plan of Attack, the New York Times then reported that “Secretary of State Colin Powell disputed Woodward’ s account....He said that he had an excellent relation...
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to adapt on the ground. And obviously pleased that we’d found a way to make the operation work. The Sinai mission marked a transition not just for me, but for others in Sayeret Matkal as well. Avraham Aranan finally left the unit he’d imagined, created and built. He became the h...
/ BARAK / 37 was coping in his trademark military uniform. Still, the mood music going into the meeting was encouraging. After the election, Arafat had tried to use his ties with the ayatollahs in Iran to get them to release 13 members of the tiny Jewish community in Shiraz who...
/ BARAK / 25 1982 Lebanon War, with two sons fighting on the ground, he’d been a rare voice of common sense, and caution, in the Begin cabinet. I’d also seen him operate in Shamir’s inner security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief of staff, to present military operatio...
Administration and agenda Looking ahead to the Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, the focus will be on Trump’s top priorities: infrastructure, tax reform, dismantling the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and immigration reform. President-elect Trump highlighted...
MO: If Kurds have military confrontation with NAM, our response will depend on circumstances. Pawlenty: What lessons have we learned and what lessons has NAM learned? MO: NAM knows that when he leaves office, he could be prosecuted and put in jail. This will inform his actions....
/ BARAK / 52 was now chief of staff, to ensure we had a plan to get our troops out as quickly and safely as possible once the order was given. But complex though the operational issues were, that was not the most difficult part. The withdrawal had not just a military aim, but a...
Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You n...
the military power embodied by the Pentagon—had been hit. Sweets were handed out in East Jerusalem
the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review recently held that these prohibitions on terrorism are
2339A-2339C; see supra at pp. 99-100 (military prosecutions);
having come face-to-face with our overwhelming military
from the military to the judiciary. It was shocking and eye-opening. This
“my reference to the dangers of the military-industrial complex
who had succeeded Eli Zeira as head of military