Lishkat-Gius (ивр.) - военкомат.

Tironut (ивр). - Курс молодого бойца.

Baad-Ehad - База подготовки офицеров Армии Обороны Израиля

"палы" - ПАСВ(Баас), партия арабских нацистов.

В первоначальной версии звучала песня "Братья, как хорошо, когда мы сидим все вместе..." - эту песню пели израильские десантники на борту транспортного "Геркулеса", который летел в сторону Уганды в 1976 году.

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Starship Troopers > Customer Review #1:
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  Thought provoking and wildly entertaining
  
  Being a big fan of all things sci-fi, I had long wished to read what is perhaps the most famous of Heinleins books: Starship Troopers. I was expecting a sci-fi/adventure. What I got was incredible.
  Its no wonder Heinlein is considered one of the masters of science fiction. Whereas other authors might try to develop one idea over the course of a novel, Heinlein throws ideas at you so fast that sometimes you may need to reread a passage once or twice. A change of political system, a change of justice system, interplanetary warfare and the evolution of the human race are all merely TOYED WITH in this book. The real core of the story is about a young man who comes from a wealthy background and thinks he knows what he wants out of life who finds himself way over his head in for the ride of his life, after deciding on a whim to spend a few years in the armed forces (to join his best friend).
  
  Getting back to what I said before, there is action in the first chapter of this book. After that, most of the book is dedicated to describing the technology, social system, and life of our protagonist in the future.
  
  But dont let that get you down. The way that the situations are described and conversations are carried out is incredibly entertaining, and more than once I was laughing histerically at things that the hero of our story was saying to himself. If you love cool sci-fi technology you certainly wont be bored, as all manner of cool weaponry and gear (not to mention the AWESOME battle armor) of the future are described in a way that really gets your imagination going.
  
  The real story here is about the training combat that our hero goes through, and the change that it has on him as a result. Its a story of tragedy and triumph, joy and despair, fear and valor. This is not only a great sci-fi, but a great book in general. If you like science fiction (and especially if you like Heilein) you owe it to yourself to give this book a read.
  
  
  
  
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  Starship Troopers > Customer Review #2:
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  Starship Paratroopers or Starship NAZIS? part 1
  
  Robert Heinleins Starship Troopers written in the 1959 is an important book EVERY U.S. military man should read and should be on the required reading lists of all the services. Its currently best-seller #7 of U.S. Army West Point Military Academy Cadets at Amazon books, so this is encouraging.
  However, its really two books, Book 1 describes a Technotactically advanced Space Paratrooper force that thinks and uses egalitarean teamwork. When most people refer to "Starship Troopers" this is what they think of: Space Paratroopers jumping from space in capsules, re-entering the earths atmosphere, then landing by parachute inside an armored, powered "superman" suit with devastating weapons, situational awareness, an ability to fly for short distances using leg jets. Basically the armored tank and the infantryman have merged into a "mechanized human". We follow one recruit, Johnny Rico from basic training to combat to OCS and some more combat against sub-terranian alien bugs, impervious to stand-off, even nuclear firepower. He and his team-mates help each other out as they fight to save mankind.
  
  Heinlein in amazing anticipation of events predicts:
  
  1. The desirability of masses of individual Paratroopers flooding an enemy system of defense
  2. The inability of firepower even nuclear to subdue enemies gone to ground, and the need to have ground forces
  3. U.S. and Russia teaming up to fight Red China (?)
  4. All-Volunteer Force not having enough things to do
  5. Men wearing ear rings as socially acceptable
  6. Women as combat pilots
  7. Need for Situational Awareness means to be mind and hands-free; page 102;
  
  "And that is the beauty of a powered suit: you dont have to think about it. You dont have to drive it, fly it, conn it, operate it; you just wear it and it takes orders directly from your muscles and does for you what your muscles are trying to do. This leaves you with your whole mind free to handle your weapons and notice what is going on around you...which is supremely important to an infantryman who wants to die in bed. If you load a mud foot down with a lot of gadgets that he has to watch, somebody a lot more simply equipped--say with a stone ax---will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a vernier"
  
  "Starship Troopers" is the unspoken inspiration behind the U.S. Armys effort to digitalize the individual fighting Soldier called "21st Century Land Warrior or "21st CLAW". Heinlein if alive today would be pleased. But overall he may be alarmed that his vision is being used to complicate the fighting processes instead of simplifying them. His warning above should be heeded.
  
  He also brilliantly foretells and describes a dazzling array of technologies that we actually have today from beacons to Soldier global positioning systems to night sights. He paints a picture of a "Super Infantry". He clearly understands the need to "force an entry" by his Paratroopers (Starship Troopers) descending rapidly from space in enormous numbers with decoys and debris from their capsules creating a flood of blips on enemy radars too numerous for him to contend with. This anticipation of the essence of ballistic missile (the starship trooper in his capsule is a re-entry vehicle) defense was written by a man in the 1950s before we even had such things as satellites and sub-orbital ballistic missiles! The irony is that the very reasons Heinlein uses for describing how his "Starship Troopers" would be impossible to stop applies to the current National Missile Defense debate. We should in the interim develop a high-altitude mass tactical individual parachuting system with delayed opening chutes as Heinlein proposes to better avoid enemy air defenses in the 21st century. When/if space combat becomes a reality, the flood of individual re-entry capsules makes a lot more sense than packing the men into a landing spacecraft which provides a convenient target for the enemy to destroy.
  
  This is the book we all love.*
  
  Yet this is all BAIT.
  
  Heinlein starts the book off with the attention-getting battle in the supertrooper gear to try to later on sell you on his POLITICAL AGENDA or what I call "book 2". He is saying that if you like the military "Mobile Infantry" (MI) force presented (essentially the self-reliant, U.S. Army Airborne Paratrooper in futuristic space gear), you need to change the way the U.S. government is run to the way Heinlein sees it should be. To have mechanized humans, you must have a mechanized SOCIETY. There is no "free lunch" as his school professor/mentor retired MI LTC DuBois would likely tell Rico. Heinlein flat out proposes that the U.S. Constitution and its ideas of each human being having intrinsic citizenship rights in his starship future will be eliminated. Clearly, this is a subversive book that is a direct cultural attack on the Constitution of the U.S. which Heinlein as a former U.S. Navy officer was sworn once to uphold.
  
  *The recent Hollywood film is a disgrace that failed to depict Heinleins vision of space Paratroopers when we easily have the visual technology to do this and chose to instead mock the entire book with glib presentations of generations X/Y actors having sex and co-ed showers together then getting massacred by space bugs because they have no armored suits or tanks and only standard 21st Century 5.56mm assault rifles to shoot at the bugs. Maybe the Director, Paul Verhoeven hated the books neo-fascism philosophy and decided to make his own trashy movie to trash it? Maybe someday someone will actually read the book and create a video game that depicts Paratroopers in powered space suits dropped from space?
  
  
  
  
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  Starship Troopers > Customer Review #3:
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  Forget the movie!
  
  If you thought you knew what Starship Troopers was about because you saw Verhovens horrible abomination of a movie, forget everything you think you know.
  Starship Troopers is a thoughtful exposition of Heinleins views regarding freedom, natural rights, social responsibility, and the necessity of violence in defense of civilization. Whether you agree with his positions or not, this book forces you to at least confront them. Thinking about them is your responsibility.
  
  In addition to the exposition, Starship Troopers is a slam-bang action novel that hovers on the more realistic fringe of space opera, and is responsible for introducing some of the things we now consider standard concepts, like personal battlesuits.
  
  If youre into military SF action, youll enjoy this book. If youre into political exposition, youll enjoy this book. If you like both, youll be ecstatic.
  
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