Lieutenant-General
Jan 17 2007, Pankaj

When the Israeli government decided, in the space of a few hours, to start the Second Lebanon War, it did not have any plan. Shockingly, the Chief urged the cabinet to start the war but did not submit any plan. A war without a plan is like a human...

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