Aleppo Has Reassured Despots That They Can Get Away with Anything
But will it teach the West to stop making excuses?
December 22, 2016
How the Israeli Military Used Toy Airplanes to Revolutionize Warfare
A primitive drone almost prevented the Yom Kippur War.
In 1968, Israeli military intelligence suspected that Egypt was already making preparations for its next war on the Jewish state. But monitoring these preparations—many of which took place just a few hundred yards from the border—required a risky covert operation. Shabtai Brill, a senior intelligence officer at the time, felt there had to be a better way. Inspired by a newsreel he had seen about an American boy who had received a miniature remote-control airplane as a bar-mitzvah present, he arrived at the idea behind drone warfare. Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot write:
December 22, 2016
At Its Seventh Congress, Mahmoud Abbas’s Party Endorses Continued Low-Grade Violence
No firearms, please.
How the Israeli Military Used Toy Airplanes to Revolutionize Warfare
A primitive drone almost prevented the Yom Kippur War.
The Hidden Costs of Terrorism
Not just numbers.
When the Lion, Cheetah, and Hippopotamus Roamed the Land of Israel
The fauna of the Bible.