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April 18, 2012

U.S. Intel in the Dark over Israel's Iran Plans

Andrew Exum, World Politics Review

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My sense, based on conversations with Israeli leaders and Israel-watchers as well as years spent studying Israeli military operations and strategic thinking -- or what passes for strategic thinking in a country where domestic politics seems to determine everything -- is that Israel might be willing to roll the dice on an attack on Iran and, in effect, see what happens.

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