Paul McLeary
By Paul McLeary
-
Opinion For Israeli Military, Armor’s Out, Cyber Is In
Officers in the U.S. Army have long envied the “short drive” they claim the Israel Defense Forces has to reach its front lines, bemoaning the tyranny of distance when deploying to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Having relatively short distances to go when meeting a threat means that the IDF is able to go in…
-
Culture The Military in Flux
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground By Robert D. Kaplan Random House, 448 pages, $27.95. Soon after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Robert D. Kaplan, a travel writer who had long been attracted to the more volatile corners of the world, packed his…
-
Culture The Unintended Consequences Of Promoting Democracy
Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy By Amitai Etzioni Yale University Press, 336 pages, $27.00 In the eyes of Amitai Etzioni, the Soviet Union’s relegation to the dustbin of history hasn’t changed the fact that what is left of the former empire remains the greatest threat to international security on the world stage….
-
Culture Dennis Ross’s Diplomacy 101
Statecraft: And How to Restore America’s Standing in the World By Dennis Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 384 pages, $26. When the diplomatic history of the Bush administration is written, it will likely be little more than a catalog of lost opportunities, punctuated only occasionally by a muted victory won only after a series of…
Most Popular
- 1
News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
- 2
Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
- 3
Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
- 4
Film & TV Robert Redford’s legacy is surprisingly Jewish
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Will Judaism after Gaza be any different than Judaism before Gaza?
-
Fast Forward Billie Eilish, Benedict Cumberbatch join UK concert that raised $2M for Palestinian charities
-
Fast Forward University leaders among 100+ signatories to Jewish letter decrying Trump’s campus antisemitism wars
-
Fast Forward ‘I voted for you because Jews are good with money’: Mark Levine on running for comptroller
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism