MER Article Israeli, American Military Confer on Combat Stress On January 2-6, 1983, I attended the Third International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Time of War and Peace, sponsored by Tel Aviv University. The first two conferences in the series, convened in 1975 and 1978, were also held in Tel Aviv. According to the organizers, the conf A Special Correspondent • 2 min read
MER Article US Aid to Israel The General Accounting Office (GAO), often referred to as “the congressional watchdog agency,” began a full-scale investigation of US aid to Israel in early 1982, without any public announcement or official congressional sponsor. The report was completed in early 1983 and circulated to the relevant Martha Wenger, Joe Stork • 9 min read
MER Article Conventional Arms Sales For years, US leaders have attempted to muffle opposition to overseas arms sales by arguing that transfers of conventional, non-nuclear munitions reduce the risk of nuclear war. If we provide our allies with adequate conventional defenses, the argument goes, they will not be motivated to acquire nuc Michael Klare • 4 min read
MER Article AirLand Battle Doctrine The US Army has recently adopted an aggressive new warfighting doctrine called AirLand Battle. Its precepts now constitute the Army’s basic “how to fight” principles for a decade of “intense, deadly, and costly” battles. The Middle East is one of three major theaters—along with Europe and Korea—in w Martha Wenger • 13 min read
MER Article On the Beach There are two kinds of beaches in US defense planning. The first is the shoreline that US Marines typically storm in a real or rehearsed military intervention. The second belongs to the domain of the nuclear strategists. When their “limited” nuclear war games go astray, simulating escalation into al Christopher Paine • 24 min read
MER Article The War in Lebanon On Sunday morning, June 6, 1982, 40,000 Israeli troops, with hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers, rolled across the 33-mile border with southern Lebanon. Israeli seaborne troops landed on the Lebanese coast at Sidon and near the mouth of the Zahrani River, while the Israeli air force co James Paul, Joe Stork • 26 min read
MER Article The Arc of Crisis and the New Cold War The latter half of the 1970s witnessed a sustained and geographically diverse series of social upheavals in the Third World which, taken together, constituted a lessening of Western control in the developing areas. In Africa, the Ethiopian revolution of 1974 was followed by a series of changes in th Fred Halliday • 37 min read
MER Article From the Editors (October-December 1981) This is our one hundredth issue, and our tenth anniversary. The variety and scope of the articles, and the size of the magazine, go beyond anything we have attempted before. At the same time, this issue incorporates and represents much of what MERIP has tried to do over its ten years past. We are ve The Editors • 4 min read
MER Article Exonerating US Policy Barry Rubin, Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience in Iran (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980). Fred Halliday • 13 min read
MER Article Economic Sanctions and Iranian Trade Former President Jimmy Carter’s announcement of economic sanctions against Iran on April 7, 1980 aroused little enthusiasm except in Tehran, where crowds roared their approval of a formal break in ties with the “great Satan.” At home, hadn’t the freeze of Iranian assets, the longshoremen’s refusal t Philip Shehadi • 4 min read
MER Article Morgan, Domestic Intelligence Richard E. Morgan, Domestic Intelligence: Monitoring Dissent in America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980). Konrad Ege • 1 min read
MER Article Kissinger Memorandum: "To Isolate the Palestinians" MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION DATE AND TIME: June 15, 1975 12:15 to 2:35 pm PLACE: Suite 311, Hotel Pierre, New York City SUBJECT: Meeting with Jewish Leaders (Klutznik Group) Kissinger: First of all, I want you to know how much I appreciate your taking off on the weekend to come here. (Author not identified) • 24 min read
