Sublime

At the time of the Camp David summit in July 2000, however, I’d been a politician for all of five years. Most of my life by far had been spent in uniform. As a teenager, small and slight and not even shaving yet, I was part of the founding core of a unit called Sayeret Matkal, Israel’s equivalent of America’s Delta Force or Britain’s Special Air Se

Never again, he swore, would he send young troops into “open ground against their superiors both in number and discipline.”36 This strategy was neither glamorous nor particularly congenial to Washington’s personality, but it might prove sure and effective.37

Gerow’s refusal to bend textbook tactics to the reality of amphibious warfare was a classic example of military hubris.

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck,

Otto Skorzeny