War-related Parries
October 2009
My Hope: Obama’s Change
Defeat in the Olympics bid may focus the mind in the Oval Office where it should be: Afghanistan.
January 2009
Shanghai Europe
So, finally, we stopped yesterday; the Israeli assault of late 2008/early 2009 on Gaza is over. With it, Israel lost moral purity and made vital strategic gains.
December 2008
Stop Yesterday
Is the goal of Israel’s assault on Gaza to discourage Hamas from firing rockets, or is it to render Hamas incapable of firing rockets? These are two very different projects, yet we are hearing about both from the government, which worryingly suggests that the government isn’t quite sure.
June 2008
Another End of Times
With the recent reported training exercises over Crete, perhaps Israel’s strike on the Iranian regime’s machinery of genocide has already begun.
May 2003
Bring in Jordan; Be Very Nasty
The Jews have too many commemorations of themselves as hapless victims or heroic victors. Perhaps it would make us more whole if we also had to deal with some terrible stains. I’m saying that if the Palestinians don’t stop the suicide bombing, perhaps Israel should do something that will make it feel guilt for aeons.
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And on the Trail
Fri 27 Apr ’12
George Friedman of Stratfor on Israel’s new strategic environment, republished by the UK Defence Forum. Also, Friedman on Turkey’s strategy", Iran’s and Russia’s".
Thu 15 Mar ’12
Yossi Klein Halevi articulates Israeli feeling on Obama’s “got your back” statement.
Fri 2 Mar ’12
Ensuring that Iran does not go nuclear is the best guarantee for long-term regional stability. Amos Yadlin, one of eight Israeli fighter pilots who bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak, debunks some conventional wisdom on attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Tue 21 Feb ’12
Sun 19 Feb ’12
More refreshment from Edward Luttwak. I am enamored.
Sat 18 Feb ’12
Thu 19 Jan ’12
Mark Helprin sums it up on attacking Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Unusually, he cogently summarizes the reasons Iran wants the bomb.
Sun 13 Nov ’11
Israel’s new fence along the Egyptian border is going up fast.
Sun 6 Nov ’11
American dogs of war, a photo essay. Good, good.
Fri 21 Oct ’11
Dead. Qua-daffy. The NYT’s potted (and potty) history. “By the time he was done, Libya had no parliament, no unified military command, no political parties, no unions, no civil society and no nongovernmental organizations.”
Mon 19 Sep ’11
Spengler: the “new, apocalyptic tone” in the Middle East is due to Egypt’s chronic unproductivity.
Fri 2 Sep ’11
The Weekly Standard gives credit where credit is due to President Obama on Libya.
Sat 27 Aug ’11
Stunningly good piece by Amir Oren in Haaretz on the British in Libya.
Thu 25 Aug ’11
Despite Libya, what matters now is Syria, namely defeating Iran there.
Tue 23 Aug ’11
Sat 20 Aug ’11
Harry Knowles lovin’ on the perfect Captain America: The First Avenger.
Tue 9 Aug ’11
Sun 12 Jun ’11
Al Schwimmer, founder of Israel Aircraft Industries, dies at 94. Haaretz obit.
Sat 28 May ’11
The Gates Farewell Warning: America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both.
Thu 7 Apr ’11
Israel performs the world’s first interception of a hostile short-range rocket.
Mon 28 Feb ’11
Hitchens upbraids Obama on Libya.
Mon 31 Jan ’11
US and Canadian Multinational Force & Observers await evacuation from Sinai, Debka reports. They’ve been there since 1981 to observe and preserve demilitarization.
Tue 18 Jan ’11
The case for an engaged USA, elementally argued by Robert Kagan. “The danger, as always, is that we don’t even realize the benefits…”
Sun 16 Jan ’11
Sat 2 Oct ’10
Constantly two generations ahead: Stuxnet confounds and amazes.
Mon 30 Aug ’10
At last, some vintage Holidays in Hell P. J. O’Rourke with 72 hours in Afghanistan.
Tue 27 Jul ’10
The Luftwaffe’s in Israel, training to fly Heron drones in Afghanistan.
Mon 19 Jul ’10
Ruth Lapidoth, Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University, on the legalities of Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. Note how long the Turks had Gaza: 400 years — far far longer than anyone else around today.
Fri 4 Jun ’10
Krauthammer on those troublesome Jews; Kristol in praise of blockades.
Fri 9 Apr ’10
Mon 29 Mar ’10
Israel-Iran war games at the Saban Center. Game simulation — such a powerful way to think.
Sun 3 Jan ’10
David Brooks’ Sidney Awards for great online essays.
Tue 20 Oct ’09
Some quickly digestible nuggets of imperial wisdom from Byzantium, as channelled by Edward Luttwak in Foreign Policy.
Thu 15 Oct ’09
It’s madness but persuasive: Why Russia is Not Afraid of an Iranian Bomb by Boris Morozov.
Sun 11 Oct ’09
Boogie Ayalon articulates the bottom-up approach to the Israel/Palestinian conflict.
Tue 25 Aug ’09
Iranian missile technology is developing impressively, Dore Gold’s Jerusalem Center reports.
Wed 5 Aug ’09
Listen to or watch this account of a young US Marine impaled with a live missile, and how his colleagues and doctors risked their own lives to remove it.
Tue 7 Jul ’09
Mon 6 Jul ’09
Robert McNamara, 93. Obituary by The Washington Post.
Sun 5 Jul ’09
Peter Berokowitz outlines the likely repercussions of an Israeli preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Nothing too earth-shattering actually.
Sat 13 Jun ’09
John Bolton lists Iran’s likely responses to an Israeli attack. Plus: he says “quantum of solace”!
Thu 16 Apr ’09
A tantalizing glimpse into the mindset of the Germans during the Final Solution — this book review rollicks along.
Thu 12 Mar ’09
“One must make a stand. One simply must.” Christopher Hitchens, embroiled in Lebanon.