The Israeli experience in 2006 was due primarily to a loss of traditional war-waging skills as a consequence of the protracted stability operation that the Israeli military had conducted in the Palestinian territory and the failure to recognize the need for a more traditional joint combined arms fire and maneuver approach.

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Elsevier's enviable margins, Dr Fowler says, are simply a consequence of the firm's efficient operation.

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