The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad doesn’t make threats lightly. And as they confronted the uprising in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, government security forces were blunt, according to the medical staff in area’s small hospitals and the local Red Crescent outpost there
Tag Archives: military
Terminating A Double Agent
Krav Maga: The Israeli Self-Defense Technique Goes Global
Why the Pakistan Army Won’t Fight Afghanistan’s Taliban
President Barack Obama is about to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, but the success of whatever option he chooses will depend heavily on Pakistan acting to stop its territory being used to attack Western forces next door. And that’s bad news, because the demands of its own domestic counterinsurgency campaign, doubts about the duration of U.S
The CIA’s Secret Army: The CIA’s Secret Army
The Philippines: To Be Watched
In Libya, American Shares Military Expertise with Rebels
Sam Manekshaw
Are an Argentine Media Mogul’s Adopted Kids Desaparecidos?
This is the tale of the enmity of three women: the first is perhaps the richest in Argentina; the second is the President of the country; the third, a grandmother in search of the children of desaparecidos, the 30,000 or so mostly young people who disappeared in the military junta’s death camps from 1976 to 1983. The objects of their contention are two adopted children, a brother and sister, who stand to inherit an immense fortune or see it shrink, if their genes betray a past that might help dramatically diminish their mother’s business empire
Arthur Goldreich
Nelson Mandela didn’t know how to fire a rifle when he formed the underground military movement of the African National Congress in the 1950s. For help, he called on Arthur Goldreich, a Jewish South African artist who despised apartheid and had fought in the 1948 war that achieved Israeli independence