Military history
After fifteen months of war, and brilliant Israeli operations, Hamas and Hizballah have managed to avoid total defeat, and the IDF has not yet managed to secure total victory.
And the geopolitics of the Bronze Age Levant.
The tank is iron, but the man is steel.
A cultural gap not easily bridged.
On the centennial of a great Jewish general’s knighthood.
A historian tries to minimize Yoni Netanyahu’s heroism.
Lessons of the Punic Wars.
IS could invent ever more gruesome forms of murder, but it could not make a fighter plane or win the lasting allegiance of the majority. . .
The West can win easily, if it has the will to do so.
“Tacfarinas realized that he did not need to kill Roman soldiers to defeat them.”
In his 1864 march through Georgia, the great general successfully broke the resistance of the Confederacy. Has the IDF been channeling his genius?