Epstein Secrets

forces unit that could fight as well. Early in 1963, we hosted a visit to the unit by Colonel Albert Merglen, a veteran of France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, and commander of the airborne commando force known as the 11" Demi-brigade Parchutistes de Choc. As the colonel looked on, I led a sayer

and injured hundreds more. The country was in no mood for another war. The newly created Israeli armed forces — known as 7zahal, a Hebrew acronym for the Israeli Defense Force — also seemed to have lost the cutting edge, or perhaps the desperate motivation, of the pre-state militias. At first, Ben- Gurion relied on young re

forces unit that could fight as well. Early in 1963, we hosted a visit to the unit by Colonel Albert Merglen, a veteran of France's colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, and commander of the airborne commando force known as the 11* Demi-brigade Parchutistes de Choc. As the colonel looked on, I led a sayer

and injured hundreds more. The country was in no mood for another war. The newly created Israeli armed forces — known as 7zahal, a Hebrew acronym for the Israeli Defense Force — also seemed to have lost the cutting edge, or perhaps the desperate motivation, of the pre-state militias. At first, Ben- Gurion relied on young re

nes EFTA00585504 25 played little part in his country's successful Korean offensive of 1950-51. If only the champions of America's adventure in Indochina had absorbed the historical lessons of these earlier experiences. Perhaps Robert S. McNamara, defense secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johns

storic moment? For new approaches toward an Israeli- Palestinian peace, like the Israeli Peace Initiative proposed two weeks ago by former heads of the Israeli Defense Force, Mossad, and Shin Bet? For working with the European Union to help Egypt and Tunisia improve their economies and consolidate democracy the way the