Martin van Creveld
By Martin van Creveld
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Opinion Ehud Olmert Is Not Solely To Blame
Nine months after the end of Israel’s war in Lebanon comes the Winograd Commission’s interim report — and it is being used to put a gun to the head of the wrong person. The Winograd report ignores the plain fact that the war ended in a victory of sorts; how else to explain why the…
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Opinion War Clouds Gather Over the Golan
While the world’s attention is riveted on the conflict in Iraq and a possible American attack on Iran, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may be quietly preparing for a war against Israel. From the mid-1950s until the end of the Cold War, what made Syria’s aggression against Israel possible was the fact that Damascus got its…
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Opinion Make a Deal With Syria and Weaken the Iran-Hezbollah Axis
Is Damascus serious in its repeated offers to negotiate peace with Israel? Even if it is, should Israel let down its guard and take a chance on negotiating with this known supporter of terrorism? The consensus answer in Washington and Jerusalem seems to be a firm no. But a careful look at the current situation,…
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News Knowing Why Not To Bomb Iran Is Half the Battle
One of my teachers, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, used to say that going to war is not like asking a girl out on a date. It is a very serious decision, to be made on the basis of carefully crafted answers to even more carefully crafted questions. Some serious questions, then, about…
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Opinion Sanction Palestinian Moderation By Imposing Moderate Sanctions
In 1994, I had the good fortune of being present when the former president of South Africa, F. W. DeKlerk, claimed with a laugh that his country had successfully avoided the sanctions imposed on it by the United Nations. Seen from where he sat in Pretoria, he may well have spoken the truth. Those hardest…
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News Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War
The number of American casualties in Iraq is now well more than 2,000, and there is no end in sight. Some two-thirds of Americans, according to the polls, believe the war to have been a mistake. And congressional elections are just around the corner. What had to come, has come. The question is no longer…
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Opinion Overcoming Israel’s Separation Anxiety
As the year 5765 opens, for Israel the writing is on the wall. The country’s morale is being undermined; its resources are eaten up in a fruitless struggle. Since the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising four years ago, Israel’s economic position has deteriorated in comparison with other developed countries, and even compared with some…
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Opinion Dangers of a Drawn-out War
Sixty-two years ago this week, on April 6, 1941, Germany went to war against Yugoslavia. Then, as now in Iraq, a small country served as a vital source of raw materials — in the case of Yugoslavia, nonferrous metals — to a much larger and more powerful one. Then, as now, that country refused to…
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