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When I was a little kid, my history teachers at the local Hebrew day school often spun grand tales about the fighting effectiveness of the Israeli Defense Forces. We were told how the IDF were the most feared military unit in the Middle East, and that person for person, the Israeli military could kick anyone's tuchus from here to the World to Come...
Well, like any trigger-happy 10 year-old, I sought out more information about the IDF, the world's most shitkicking minyan. I subscribed to Jane's Defense Weekly. I wanted to find out what it was about the IDF's organizational structure that made them so darn good...
...only after visiting my cousins in Israel, who were serving in the IDF at the time, that I discovered what, to use some social sciences jargon, the intervening variable...
...bundle. Taiwan has been trying for 10 years to buy F-16 fighter- bombers, but the U.S. has refused, in order to avoid stirring up Beijing. Washington did compromise by allowing enough technology transfers and help from General Dynamics so that Taiwan could build an indigenous defense fighter (IDF) based on the F-16. But word out of Taipei is that the initials really stand for "It Don't Fly." Now that Beijing is buying Soviet-built Su-27 fighters, Taiwan is running out of patience. Diplomatic sources say Taipei has decided to buy about 60 MIRAGE 2000 fighters from...
...head toward the car, calm returns to the neighborhood. The IDF, police and civil defense units go efficiently about their business--assessing damage to property, evacuating people recently rendered homeless, treating the wounded and comforting the shaken. Army radio announces that ten were wounded in the three missile landings that morning. As we are about to get in the car to locate the other impact sites, I speak to a man wearing a large black Kippa (skull cap). "You know, one Arab state attacks another, the Americans and the Europeans declare war and we pay the price...