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...equivalency between Israel, a free and democratic country in which every citizen is equal under the law, and Israel’s neighbors, which are theocracies and dictatorships. Israel conducts its military operations in self-defense to secure its civilians and targeting terrorists while minimizing civilian casualties. Indeed, British Colonel Richard Kemp said, “The IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare” regarding Operation Cast Led. I will add that instead of distancing from Israel, the U.S. might even learn...
...public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old receptionist killed in British custody in September 2003, has heard that internal warnings about the treatment of prisoners were ignored. "The procedure for detention and collection of evidence can only be described as a shambles," wrote Lieut. Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the army's senior legal officer in Iraq, in a memo written only months before Mousa's death. A further inquiry has started to examine claims that up to 20 Iraqi detainees were killed in British custody in 2004, an allegation denied by Britain's defense ministry...
...that his name not be used. Now in Afghanistan, he considered leaving. "But then I'd have lost my job, my friends," he says. Ferocious loyalty to their comrades and regiments sustains soldiers in the teeth of dangers and privations. "We are going into the heart of darkness," Lieut. Colonel Matt Bazeley told his troops at Camp Bastion as they prepared for the first phase of the Moshtarak push. "It is bloody dangerous out there. This is real. This is it. This is what you have been trained...
...complemented by intensive academic study of military history and strategy. "Where we are fundamentally different from our peer academies at West Point, Saint-Cyr and Dresden is that we are a military academy that has a significant intellectual, academic component. They are military universities that do military training," says Colonel Tim Checketts, Sandhurst's chief of staff. The academy is uniquely placed "to develop character, intellect and professional competence." He adds: "At their age [the cadets] are all wonderfully optimistic. We do give them some intensive lessons in the realities of war." (Read: "A Window on a Lost World...
Lieutenant Colonel Akhtar Abbas, army spokesman in Swat, says the military is taking its cue from the populace. "We listened to them, we tried to solve their problems," he says. "They're our own brothers and sisters, we're not like the Americans in Iraq...