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The US
Military Professor Robert Hickson writes in The Neo-Conned:
The common good of the
United States would be greatly furthered, I believe, if there
were even just one “ferociously honest” man like Israel Shamir
within the U.S. military. This former Israeli commando and
immigrant from the former Soviet Union gives many unflinching
“reports from reality,” which are not easily found in other
sources. The reader of this essay will certainly know what I
mean if he will only read Shamir’s recently published collection
of essays entitled Flowers of Galilee.
In his candid book,
Israel Shamir gives more and deeper cultural and strategic
intelligence about Israel than one will find in all of CIA’s
unclassified translations, available from its gifted, but
sometimes overly selective (or self-censoring), Foreign
Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Like the now-deceased
Israeli writer and “secular humanist” Israel Shahak – but, I
think, even more profoundly so – Israel Shamir is truthful and
candid in his manifold analyses and presentation of hard facts,
many of which are essentially unknown in the West unless one
reads Hebrew.
What Israel Shamir writes
gives not only much “ground truth” about Israel and its
strategic operations and deceptions, but also larger reports
about the “political action of Jewish forces” in the wider
world, and keenly vivid “cautionary tales” plus even deeper
“parables” – all of which will aid our indispensable knowledge
of reality and give good grounds for the United States’
strategic “course-correction” in the Middle East and at home.
Israel Shamir’s work
would be a great example to our own military and intelligence
officers. For it has been my constant experience over the years
– even as a professor at military colleges and academies,
strategic institutes, and universities – that our military and
intelligence officers are not formed to grasp, nor even to
desire, a deeper cultural and strategic intelligence about
foreign countries. That kind of intelligence (hence
understanding) is too often depreciated and considered as “soft
intelligence” rather than “hard” or “quantifiable” intelligence.
As a result, and as we become increasingly secularized as a
nation, we cannot easily take the measure of foreign religious
cultures or gauge the importance of religious world-views such
as Zionism and Islam.
Read his essay in full.
Robert Hickson, USA (ret.), Ph.D.
Robert Hickson, USA (ret.), Ph.D., is a
1964 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, retired U.S. Army
Special Forces officer, and Vietnam War veteran. Following his
retirement he served for many years in the intelligence and
special-operations communities in varying capacities. His degree
is in comparative literature and classics from the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and he is a founding faculty member
of Christendom College. Hickson has held professorships at the
U.S. Air Force Academy, the Joint Special Operations University
at U.S. Special Operations Command, the John. F. Kennedy Special
Warfare Center and School, and the Joint Military Intelligence
College.
http://www.neoconned.com/
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