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CONTEXT OF "PAX AMERICANA"
I have written "Pax Americana" chapters as posts
to a particular discussion thread of a Yahoo list.
I have initiated the thread and chosen the title which
points to the longest period of peace in European
history resulting from USA having saved Europe from
Nazis and imposed post war measures which made this
peace possible. The thread has been started with my
following assertions:
 
1.The world tends necessarily towards mondialisation
which implies some form of domination by a single power.
 
2.Eliminating sad comedies such as the UN and powerless
committees such as Europe, the real mondial power
options seem to be: Russia, China, Islam and USA.
 
3.Of these options I have postulated USA, or "Pax
Americana" as preferable by orders of magnitude.
 
5.Best not necessarily meaning "ideal", nor even "good",
I endeavored to indicate drawbacks of the USA option
which may prevent it from reaching the domination, as
well as some of its disadvantages for the eventually
dominated world. The worst of them is IMO the "American
View", the complex of beliefs, cliches and prejudices
governing American social and political reason and
behavior.
 
Particular chapters of "Pax Americana" try to illustrate
on some important examples how the originally laudable
American enterprises may get muddled in detail by the
American View, sometimes to the extent of turning into
catastrophes and crimes against humanity.
 
The objective of the thread is to foster discussion and
investigation which could indicate how the American View
could be modified so that Pax Americana may become
efficient as well as beneficial to the mankind.
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Pax Americana ISRAEL 
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GENERAL EVALUATION
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With their support the USA saved and keeps on
saving Israel from extermination which is IMO
morally and humanly right.

I can see only one error in American attitude
which BTW does not concern AFP, but what we
have defined in previous chapters as American 
View (AV): Flatly dogmatic AV confuses Israel
with Zionism and Orthodox Judaism and supports
Israel via Jewish Fundamentalist lobbies. This
results in stimulating the war between Jewish
and Muslim Fundamentalists who count points in 
their safe and comfortable armchairs using 
Israelis and Palestinians as cannon fodder.

With exception of this error USA do the right 
thing. And for once, intelligent and efficient 
as well.
Israel is the only 100% reliable and faithful
ally of the USA. It is the only one who 
appreciates material support, but fights for
herself without asking GI's to come and fight
for her even in utmost danger. And she returns
more than she gets. Returns it in currency
which AV is as yet not fit to convert: as
workshop of dealing with Jihad, against which
Israel defends herself for 50 years. And if
USA want to survive, they better learn to
convert this currency, to understand and to
use Israeli experience. 

Describing this experience would take a book.
In the rest of this message I will quote just 
a few of its aspects which seem to me rather 
pertinent.
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CITIZEN ARMY.
Israel has a Citizen Army. Let me juxtapose 
a few of its characteristics just as they come
to my mind, before going to examples showing
its surprising efficiency.

In a unit I counted 7 Uni Profs, veterans of
all preceeding wars, simple privates commanded
by a 22 years old captain. Each of them new
more and had more war experience than 20 young
captains. And the captain has been taught:
Start by learning all knowledge, competence
and experience you'll find in your unit.
When problem arises ask for bottom up initiative
and advise. But the decision is yours. Once
you find the proper course, fix it and make it
execute. With authority. Authority not coming
from discipline, but from your being the best
in field, from never saying the (illegal)
"forward", but "follow me", from everybody
knowing that in trouble you will stay behind 
with a machine gun covering their retreat,
that you have five times higher probability
to be killed than any of them.

No arithmetics in saving a companion. When a
wounded soldier risks to fall in the hands of 
the cruel and inhuman enemy, 10 get killed to
save him, and if 10 is not sufficient, 100 go.
Gives you a good feeling going on a mission, 
and I happen to know it from experience, to know
that the whole bloody army will go and save you 
if it's humanly possible.

Right and duty to refuse morally wrong orders.
I have asked a superior officer to stop beating
a Palestinian and he ordered me to go to hell
and turned against me. Instead of obeying I 
knocked him out, was court-martialled and
congratulated by the colonel-judge.
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THROUGH SWAMPS
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In Yom Kippur war a regiment had to cross in a
hurry swamps close to the Great Bitter Lake.
They had a lot of heavy material which could 
easily get lost in swamps. The colonel called
the 6 "kablanim" serving as privates in the 
regiment and asked them to chose the most 
knowledgeable in re swamps.
("Kablan": an entrepreneur in earth moving,
digging and foundations building).
Then he delegated the command to the chosen
one, making the others his deputies and charged
the sergeant major to look that everybody, officer
or not, did what the new boss ordered. Than he 
asked for a job. Can you load tanks on trailers 
or something of that sort? No, said the colonel
and got the stupidest available job of carrying 
boards, plates and things left behind to the 
front of the convoy. And the regiment behaved
for some time like a bunch of boy scouts 
building a tent camp or something, with the
colonel running up and down and the sergeant
major yelling to move his ass a bit faster.
The heavy material went through swamps in almost
no time without any losses.
A traditional West Point or Saint Cyr colonel
would keep authority, give such orders as his
ignorance of detail would dictate and lose every
damn thing in swamps.
And, anyway, among his professional soldiers he 
would not have 40 years old experienced and
competent kablanim serving as reserve privates.
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ONE WAR AHEAD
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Itzhak, the chief operator of my Computing 
Center and a tank driver heard on the Yom Kippur
his mobilization code in the radio. He took
an auto-stop towards his unit on the Golan.
Israel was taken by surprise and Syrians were
progressing through Golan like through butter.
On the hights he was stopped by MP who asked 
where he was going and told him that his unit 
was in Syrian hands. "What do I do?". "Go to 
the maintenance camp and save at least a tank." 
Maintenance people gave him a freshly overhauled 
tank and he drove out always in his civil
clothes. A hitch-hiker stopped him: "Need a
radio?". He contacted another tank with a 
sergeant who told them to join him. On the way
they collected a gunner and in the meeting 
place found 5 other tanks and two reconnaissance
jeeps, all headed now by a lieutenant. Nobody
knew anybody else, all belonged to different
units and, of course, never worked together.
Now, Syrian tanks, advancing by hundreds in
perfect order, were fitted with rockets of
10 km hitting range against Israeli guns limited
to 800 m. Jeeps had light guns which would not
penetrate the armor, but could eventually 
immobilize a tank by hitting its chain from
200 m distance. An experienced Jeep driver
knowing every stone on Golan proposed to 
approach the Syrian convoy by surprise and
to immobilize a tank in a gorge to narrow for
overtaking. Due to its mobility and small size
a jeep had a chance to succeed and maybe even 
to escape.
The scheme has been executed, the 6 Israeli 
tanks attacked the immobilized convoy emerging
by surprise from behind the hills at a close
distance making useless the Syrian firing range
superiority. They destroyed 4 tanks, blocking
completely the gorge and stopping the Syrian 
advance with one casualty: the jeep and its
crew, who did not escape.
Next day they grew to 15 tanks headed by a
captain and organized first supplies of gas
and munition from behind Golan.
In next 2 days they destroyed 40 Syrian tanks
and, together with some other similar improvised
units, definitely stopped the Syrian advance.
They became one of the first units of the
"captains' army", an unprecedented phenomenon
of an army emerged bottom up from the ruins of
a practically lost war, self organized and run
by young field officers without contact with 
the headquarters, on the base of improvised
coordination.
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TWO WARS AHEAD
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"Captains' Army" was doubtless the necessary
condition to return and to win the lost war.
But it was not sufficient.
Even a citizen army needs eventually a head,
especially in the case of Arabs quantitative
and technological superiority in the Yom Kippur
war. They had superiority over Israel in most 
areas, but the critical one was that of Egyptian 
SAM rockets.
Israeli plains could not show themselves in the
air without being shot down like ducks. And
without Air Force Israel would not survive a week.
Then Sharon refused Dayan's orders, took over the 
command and imagined an incredible operation
closing the circle of technology race by
falling back on the "naked" man: a commando unit
went deep into Egypt and by complete surprise
took the SAM launching site with knifes. 
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IDF is by far not the biggest army in the ME 
and not always the best equipped. If it is the 
strongest it's because it is a citizen army. 
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If USA want to survive the Jihad war, they better 
learn to understand and to use Israeli experience. 
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