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My company was part of Brigade 401, in the Sinai. It was one of two armored forces that were rotated every three months into action on the front line. In a stroke of good fortune, the brigade commander was Dovik Tamari, Avraham Arnan’s first successor as commander of the sayeret. While we awaited our forward deployment, due in September, he include
... See moreEhud Barak • My Country, My Life
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On March 21, 1968, a unit from Sayeret Matkal, the elite IDF commando force, was flown by helicopter to a staging point in the desert near the Fatah base in Karameh. The commandos’ orders were simple and clear: “Attack in daylight, seize control, isolate and kill the terrorists.” At a cabinet meeting the night before, the chief of the general staff
... See moreRonen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999 (Critical Human Rights)
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An Egyptian battleship, The King Farouk, anchored near Gaza, and the Israeli Navy planned to attack it with a torpedo. Yohai Ben-Nun (who in the 1960s became commander of Israel’s naval forces as a rear admiral) volunteered to fire the torpedo. He was certain that the Egyptian vessel would be hit and that its sailors would jump overboard. If this h
... See moreUriel Bachrach • The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
“LeMay says the only way a general can win a modern war is not fight one. Our whole raison d’être was deterrent force. When you don’t deter them any longer, you lose.
Pat Frank • Alas, Babylon: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Edition)
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Israel learned another important lesson from this disparity in defining victory in war: any Arab leader who can inflict serious damage on Israel is motivated to do so, even if his nation will ultimately lose the war. This is the sad reality for a couple of
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
