The Blemish of Conquest Moshe Dayan questioned American goals in Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq?Martin van Creveld In 1966, Israels leading newspaper, Maariv, invited the legendary military commander Moshe Dayan to be its war correspondent in Vietnam. Dayan, then 51 years old, jumped at the chance. He had been working in politics since 1959, eventually serving as minister of agriculture under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, but he had left his post in 1964 when Ben-Gurion fell out with the new prime minister, Levi Eshkol. He had been casting about for a new project. continued at length http://bostonreview.net/BR30.1/vancreveld.php Critical and indepth view of US strategies.
