Start-up Nation

2. Mindef Singapore, “Ministerial Statement on National Service Defaulters by Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean,” January 16, 2006.

3. Amnon Barzilai, “A Deep, Dark, Secret Love Affair,” http://www.israelforum.com/board/archive/index.php/t-6321.html.

4. Mindef Singapore, “Speech by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the 35 Years of National Service Commemoration Dinner,” September 7, 2007.

5. BBC News, “Singapore Elder Statesman,” July 5, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234 .stm; retrieved November 2008.

6. Quoted in James Flanigan, “Israeli Companies Seek Global Profile,” New York Times, May 20, 2009.

7. Interview with Laurent Haug, founder and CEO, Lift Conference, May 2009.

8. Interview with Tal Riesenfeld, founder and vice president of marketing, EyeView, December 2008.

9. The information from this passage is largely taken from Michael A. Roberto, Amy C. Edmondson, and Richard M. J. Bohmer, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” Harvard Business School Case Study, 2006; Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo (Birkittsville, Md.: South Mountain Books, 2004); Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, Apollo 13 (New York: Mariner Books, 2006); and Gene Kranz, Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (New York: Berkley, 2009).

10. Michael Useem, The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (New York: Three Rivers, 1998), p. 81.

11. Roberta Wohlstetter quoted in Michael A. Roberto, Richard M. J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson, “Facing Ambiguous Threats,” Harvard Business Review, November 2006.

12. Interview with Yuval Dotan (fictitious name), IAF fighter pilot, May 2008.

13. Interview with Edward Luttwak.

14. Interview with Eliot A. Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, January 2009.

15. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling quoted in Thomas E. Ricks, “A Brave Lieutenant Colonel Speaks Out: Why Most of Our Generals Are Dinosaurs,” Foreign Policy, January 1, 2009, http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/01/22/a_brave_colonel_speaks_out_why_most_of_our_ generals_are_dinosaurs.

16. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling (United States Army), “A Failure in Generalship,” Armed Forces Journal, 2007, http://www.armed forcesjournal.com/2007/05/2635198.

17. Interview with Eliot Cohen.

18. Giora Eiland, “The IDF: Addressing the Failures of the Second Lebanon War,” in The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007–2008, edited by Mark A. Heller (Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2008).

19. Quote identified from interview with Carl Schramm, March 2009.

20. William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007); and Carl Schramm, “Economic Fluidity: A Crucial Dimension of Economic Freedom,” in 2008 Index of Economic Freedom, edited by Kim R. Holmes, Edwin J. Feulner, and Mary Anastasia O’Grady (Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 2008), p. 17.

CHAPTER 6.

An Industrial Policy That Worked

1. Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), “Gross Domestic Product and Uses of Resources, in the Years 1950–1995,” in Statistical Abstract of Israel 2008, no. 59, table 14.1, http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton_e .html?num_tab=st14_01x&CYear=2008.

2. Howard M. Sacher, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, 2nd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1996), p. 30.

3. “Yishuv,” in Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed., vol. 10, p. 489.

4. Quoted in Time/CBS News, People of the Century: One Hundred Men and Women Who Shaped the Last Hundred Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), p. 128.

5. Leon Wieseltier, “Brothers and Keepers: Black Jews and the Meaning of Zionism,” New Republic, February 11, 1985.

6. Quoted in Meirav Arlosoroff, “Once Politicians Died Poor,” Haaretz, June 8, 2008.

7. Daniel Gavron, The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), p 1.

8. Bruno Bettelheim, The Children of the Dream: Communal Child-Rearing and American Education (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), pp. 15–17.