He knows that, short of an armistice, a strategic withdrawal is better executed the less an enemy knows about its timing.
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Likewise, when Sharon was incapacitated, the public was still unaware of the dimensions of the strategic folly of his withdrawal from Gaza.
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It only started when we signed in 2008, in addition to the withdrawal treaty, the Strategic Framework Agreement for the relationship between our two countries.
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In their article, the Kagans and Sullivan explain the strategic implications of next month's withdrawal.
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And second, does it lessen the chances of a triggering of the withdrawal of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Hizbullah seized the withdrawal from Lebanon as a strategic victory.
And yet even now, with Hizbullah fielding guided missiles capable of hitting Dimona and in control of Lebanese government whose military receives advanced weapons from the US, the Israeli media, led by Yediot are still presenting the withdrawal as an act of strategic genius and political courage.
Repeating their behavior in the aftermath of Israel's precipitous withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, the Iranians and their Hezbollah proxies are presenting the US withdrawal from Iraq as a massive strategic victory.
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Israel's strategic incoherence and incompetence in the wake of the withdrawal was showcased just four months later.
Indeed, in a manner even more significant globally than the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which brought Hamas to power in the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank will be perceived as a strategic victory for Global Jihad.
Given Britain's performance in Basra, a British withdrawal would probably advance rather than harm the US's strategic interests in Iraq.
Those who supported Sharon's withdrawal and expulsion plan - which is now widely recognized to have been Israel's most disastrous strategic move in recent history - were either rejected out of hand, or demoted.
For one, the effect of withdrawal is likely to be to weaken Israel considerably, reducing it from a powerful and self-reliant strategic ally to a potential liability , one unduly dependent on the United States for its security.
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