Paul McLeary
By Paul McLeary
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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