Results for “PLA Institute of Military Culture”

we are not “safe” from it anywhere. Missile systems (principally the Shahab 3 variants and Sejjl types) allow Iran to strike targets throughout the Middle East

…th the US. An Israel which can deter or defeat any combination of regional powers, yet, an Israel who is ready to contemplate and consider a modified Saudi or Arab League Plan as a basis for negotiations. The unique relationship we have developed with the US over the last 45yrs b...

The lack of economic support from donor nations and the restrictions that impede the Palestinian economy from functioning at anywhere near its full potential have also made for a deadly cocktail for Abbas’ Palestinian Authority. Combined with the occasional holding of Palestinian...

…s rest on ease of learning or ease of mentally simulating a situation. It is not obvious to us how those models would explain that the omission-commission and means—by-product distinctions seem to depend on priors or be unique to settings of coordinated punishment. Why Morality...

…ech) scales better than traditional capitalism and it moved out towards emerging markets owing to globalization. The displacement of capital from middle-class Western world has led to progressively better living conditions for the world as a whole but worse living conditions at t...

Eurasia Group: Investment Management ‘The Three Principal Players Have Different Perspectives” Division National Security Advisor John Bolton em = “Bolton wants a crisis. He hopes to use the pressure as a maximum containment strategy to cripple the Iranian economy, increasing...

Spare capacity (Iraq is trying to develop same); 4. Who has strategic influence over ME oil will matter; 5. Oil and global GDP are connected. In some ways, our energy policy may become more difficult. One big question is whether China will continue their policy of non-interventio...

…ignal is being analyzed and debated by U.S. government officials, who hold views across the spectrum. A much simpler explanation exists. Pyongyang tested a nuclear device for the same reason it has been testing long-range missile designs: to see what works. In truth, the effort...

The lack of economic support from donor nations and the restrictions that impede the Palestinian economy from functioning at anywhere near its full potential have also made for a deadly cocktail for Abbas’ Palestinian Authority. Combined with the occasional holding of Palestinian...

issues portfolio within the group's political echelon, sought to procure a long list of sophisticated weapons in a black-market scheme involving Hezbollah operatives across the globe. According to court documents, Hodroj wanted "heavy machinery" for the "fight against Jews and to...

…ch other. War now includes terrorists who do not wear uniforms, do not represent a sovereign state, and use civilian airplanes and motor vehicles to crash into buildings in order to kill their enemies. Despite these changes in war, many pacifists who cling to the notion that war...

…visit. It was on November 19, 1977. With my arm around Nava, I watched the live American television coverage as Sadat’s plane touched down at Ben-Gurion airport. Begin was at the center of the throng of dignitaries on hand to greet him: a who’s who of political and military leade...

as it showed the Islamic world that Syria was the only nation-state supporting effective resistance to Israel. It also showed Israel and the United States that Syria alone could control Hezbollah and that forcing Syria out of Lebanon was a strategic error on the part of Israel an...

Assad is believed to have stored bulk chemical agents and filled (or quickly filled) shells and bombs in underground bunkers at multiple sites throughout the country. Moreover

illness was. But for nearly six months, getting through the day, sometimes a single task, remained a struggle. I did not want to leave my command. I was still barely 18 months into the role, and anxious to get further command experience. But just as I was feeling at my weakest,...