By George W. Gawrych

[Includes five figures and 21 maps]
Situated among the Suez Canal and Israel and marked by means of the tough setting of the significant Sinai lies Abu Ageila, an unprepossessing region of low ridges and hills in which passes the best-surfaced street within the peninsula. due to its position at the important path, on the subject of the Israeli-Egyptian border, Abu Ageila turned the main to the Sinai within the Arab-Israeli wars of 1956 and 1967. The fight for this barren land in wars presents an epic tale of conflict and divulges the impression of expertise at the education for and behavior of war.
In either the 1956 and 1967 wars, Abu Ageila was once the most gateway to the Sinai for the Israel safety Forces. but, as Dr. George W. Gawrych demonstrates, there have been marked modifications among Egyptian and Israeli battle plans, arrangements, operations, and leads to the 2 battles for the realm. In 1956, Israel carried the weight of a constricting alliance with Britain and France and confronted different large army difficulties. the outcome was once that Israel fought a tough and dear conflict for Abu Ageila. against this, in 1967, the Israel security Forces built a super operational plan and accomplished powerful unit command and keep watch over and attained a decisive victory.
Based on vast study, together with own interviews with Israeli commanders and briefings through Egyptian army historians, Key to the Sinai is a crisp conflict narrative of wilderness conflict and a scientific old research of 2 armies confronting the altering phrases of conflict. scholars of AirLand conflict doctrine will locate examining this study Survey a stimulus to assembly the demanding situations of contemporary battle.

By Paul Todd

This book traces the transformation of intelligence from a device for legislation enforcement to a way of averting the law--both nationwide and international. The "War on Terror" has noticeable intelligence firms end up significant political players. "Rendition," untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention with out trial have gotten common. the hot tradition of victimhood within the US and between companions within the "coalition of the prepared" has overwhelmed household liberties and shaped an international community of extra-legal license. kingdom and company pursuits are more and more fused within the new enterprise of privatizing worry. The authors argue that the paperwork and slender political ambitions surrounding intelligence even have the aptitude to extend the terrorist possibility.

By Paul Maddrell

The years 1945-61 have been a golden age of Western intelligence assortment from spies, defectors, and refugees. This publication examines the equipment of spying and intelligence assortment in East and West Germany and assesses the significance of border defense to the East German Communist kingdom, the influence of intelligence at the fingers race, and the competitive measurement of the united states Government's coverage of containment.

By Maloy Krishna Dhar

While it used to be released in paperback in India in 2005, Open secrets and techniques grew to become an fast sensation. It turned the number 1 Non-Fiction bestseller, a place it held for plenty of months and generated a firestorm of controversy. there have been complaints, demise threats opposed to the writer, extreme debates within the media and a metamorphosis in India's legit secrets and techniques Act after the problems raised within the e-book brought on uproar in Parliament. All of this can be in hindsight now not awesome as Open secrets and techniques used to be the 1st of its variety- the 1st time a retired Indian Intelligence Bureau Officer penned his memoirs- detailing his thirty-year profession and supplying unparalleled insights into a number of the pivotal moments of Indian heritage and a peek into the political machinations that underly them.

More than an divulge, Open secrets and techniques was once a heartfelt plea for extra transparency and responsibility in India's protection and intelligence gear- to unfastened them to serve and safeguard the folks of India, and never simply their political masters. that discuss has specific resonance at the present time within the gentle of the turning out to be renowned circulate hard extra transparency and not more corruption in Indian public existence. Open secrets and techniques is thought of as a seminal paintings for its fearless publicity of the Indian political procedure and its insightful detailing of the process smooth Indian history's turning points.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maloy Krishna Dhar started lifestyles as a journalist and a instructor, yet ended up spending greater than thirty years as an officer in India’s Intelligence Bureau, retiring as its Joint Director. in the course of his hugely adorned profession, he dealt with the delicate Pakistan and Counter-terror desks, while he acquired a first-hand publicity to scuffling with the threat of Islamic terror that many Western readers have been to stay blissfully blind to until eventually the tragic occasions of September 11. After his retirement, he went again to his unique love, and have become a bestselling writer and a well-known and hugely revered authority on protection issues. He passed on to the great beyond in may well 2012, and his son, Amazon.com bestselling writer Mainak Dhar, is now bringing his paintings to readers around the globe. examine extra approximately Maloy’s amazing lifestyles and paintings at www.maloykrishnadhar.com.

By Hans Krabbendam, Giles Scott-Smith

The assumption of the chilly conflict as a propaganda contest in place of an army clash is being more and more approved. This has resulted in a second look of the connection among financial guidelines, political agendas and cultural actions in Western Europe submit 1945. This ebook offers an enormous cross-section of case reports that spotlight the connections among overt/covert actions and cultural/political agendas throughout the early chilly conflict. It for this reason presents a helpful bridge among diplomatic and intelligence examine and represents a major contribution in the direction of our knowing of the importance and effects of this linkage for the shaping of post-war democratic societies.

By Jean-Paul Pallud

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By Eric Blehm

On a moonless evening simply weeks after September eleven, 2001, U.S. designated Forces crew ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a probably very unlikely undertaking: to foment a tribal insurrection and strength the Taliban to give up. Armed exclusively with the apparatus they could keep it up their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla battle, Captain Jason Amerine and his males haven't any selection yet to belief their in simple terms best friend, a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who has back from exile and is being hunted via the Taliban as he travels the nation-state elevating a defense force. the one factor worthy loss of life For chronicles an important project within the early days of the worldwide struggle on Terror, whilst the lads at the flooring knew little concerning the enemy—and their commanders in Washington knew even much less. With extraordinary entry to surviving participants of ODA 574, key warfare planners, and Karzai himself, award-winning writer Eric Blehm cuts during the noise of politicians and high-level army officers to relate for the 1st time a narrative of unusual bravery and negative sacrifice, in detail exposing the realities of unconventional war and nation-building in Afghanistan that proceed to form the quarter this present day.

By Jeremy M. Wilson, Brian A. Jackson, Mel Eisman, Paul Steinberg, Jack K. Riley

U.S. groups depend upon trustworthy, secure, and safe rail structures. every one weekday, greater than 12 million passengers take to U.S. railways. This ebook explains a framework for protection planners and policymakers to lead in your price range rail-security making plans, in particular for the chance of terrorism. possibility is a functionality of probability, vulnerability, and results. This publication makes a speciality of addressing vulnerabilities and restricting outcomes.

By Milton William Cooper

By Ephraim Kahana

Given the rivalries and suspicions triumphing within the center East, it's not spectacular that the majority of those states are very inquisitive about espionage and infiltration. With the extra chance of terrorism, nuclear guns, a wide U.S. army presence, and the Arab-Israeli clash, the result's an impressively busy intelligence undefined, proportionately better and extra vast than in such a lot different regions.

The Historical Dictionary of heart East Intelligence addresses intelligence matters within the sector from old heritage and the center a long time via glossy occasions, masking the decline of the Ottoman Empire, intelligence job within the center East in the course of and among the 2 international wars, and the interaction among colonial and native intelligence and counterintelligence corporations of the interval. It additionally offers the fairly new fundamentalist terrorist enterprises that experience had an important influence on diplomacy and at the constitution and deployment of intelligence, counterintelligence, and different protection organs within the center East this day. With a chronology, an introductory essay, and over three hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on vital occasions and key agencies curious about all features of intelligence accumulating and research, in addition to the biographies of key gamers, this can be an immense reference at the present state of affairs within the heart East.