Sublime

Dagan was assigned to the paratroopers and served in the brigade recon unit. He underwent an infantry officer’s course and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant in 1966. In the Six-Day War, he was called up for reserve duty and served as the commander of a paratroop company. He fought first in Sinai and then on the Golan Heights. “Suddenly we

To understand how the U.S. could face defeat at the hands of a weaker insurgent enemy for the second time in a generation, we must look at the structural influences that produce our general officer corps.1 —Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling

Thomas Adams’s US Special Operations Forces in Action examined SOF roles and missions (Adams 1998),

Leadership is most essential during periods of transition, when values and institutions are losing their relevance, and the outlines of a worthy future are in controversy.

To supplement this personal experience, he undertook a program of study examining both historical and contemporary conflicts. From the Second Anglo-Boer War, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, and the German guerrilla campaign in East Africa, he learned many of the basic principles of guerrilla warfare regarding organization, intelligence, operations,

« Ma pensée, c’est que la guerre est insuffisante, en Afrique, comme elle l’a été partout ailleurs pour consolider la conquête. La guerre est assurément le premier élément du succès. Il faut avant tout briser la résistance et user la force morale du peuple vaincu. C’est la guerre qui a commencé toutes les conquêtes, mais c’est la politique seule