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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Massive protests have erupted in Israel over the government's failure to secure a hostage deal.</li><li>Public outrage followed the discovery of six hostages' bodies in Gaza over the weekend.</li></ul>Nearly 11 months have passed since the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-gaza-tour-guides-pivot-october-7-tours-make-money-2024-6">October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks</a> on Israel that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-goal-october-7-attack-israel-gaza-war-2023-11">killed over 1,000 people</a> and resulted in 251 hostages being seized, triggering a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-aid-to-israel-since-october-7-gaza-bombs-2024-6">brutal retaliation against Gaza</a> that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.Now, public sentiment in Israel appears to have reached a breaking point, with strikes across the country."It's a mix of grief and anger," Niv Keidar, who helped to block a major intercity highway in Tel Aviv on Sunday night, told Business Insider.He said the mood had resulted in hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets all over Israel and making the demand: "There must be a deal that will bring back alive those people that are still possible to rescue."Sunday night saw the largest protests in Israel since the Hamas terror attacks, with many Israelis expressing anger at Prime Minister <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-netanyahu-israel-hamas-war-ceasefire-plan-2024-6">Benjamin Netanyahu's government for failing to secure a hostage-ceasefire deal.</a>According to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/masses-protest-across-israel-in-flood-of-grief-anger-after-hamas-executes-6-hostages/">The Times of Israel</a>, some 280,000 gathered in Tel Aviv overnight. Large protests also took place in Jerusalem and Ra'anana.On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces found <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-recovers-bodies-6-hostages-gaza-us-citizen-2024-9">the bodies of six hostages</a> in an underground tunnel in Gaza.Israel said an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/autopsy-finds-6-hostages-shot-multiple-times-at-close-range-in-last-48-72-hours/">autopsy showed that the hostages had been shot</a> at close range.A group representing the hostages' families criticized Netanyahu's government, claiming the hostages could still be alive if a deal had been reached.In <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/BringThemHome23/status/1830101720564658246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1830101720564658246%7Ctwgr%5E91de83589ee8427249492a812119138820872494%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fliveblog_entry%2Fhostage-families-say-hostages-would-still-be-alive-if-it-werent-for-the-saboteurs-the-excuses-and-the-spin%2F">a post on X </a>on Sunday, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Netanyahu's government has failed to do what a government is expected to do — "return its sons and daughters home.""Netanyahu: Enough the excuses," it continued. "Enough with the spin. Enough of the procrastination! It is time to return our abductees home."The group called for a nationwide protest to demand the release of the remaining hostages — around 100 are believed to still be in Gaza, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.npr.org/2024/09/01/nx-s1-5097272/the-family-of-an-american-hostage-still-being-held-captive-by-hamas-speaks-out#:~:text=Around%20100%20hostages%20are%20still,now%20by%20Jonathan%20Dekel%2DChen.">according to Israeli authorities</a>, although it is unclear how many are alive.On Sunday, Israeli protesters blocked major roads and highways, while the country's largest labor union, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://img.mako.co.il/2024/09/01/histadrut040902.pdf?Partner=interlink">Histadrut</a>, called for a general strike.Arnon Bar-David, the head of Histadrut, which represents hundreds of thousands of workers, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/histadrut-labor-union-announces-nationwide-strike-over-failure-to-release-hostages/">said</a>: "We are getting body bags instead of a deal."The strike caused disruption to banks, schools, and transportation, and temporarily closed Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday.Hospitals were also functioning at a reduced capacity.Gili Roman, whose sister was kidnapped on October 7 but later released, and whose relative <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://img.mako.co.il/2024/09/01/histadrut040902.pdf?Partner=interlink">Carmel Gat</a> was found among the six bodies recovered by the IDF, participated in the protests.He told Business Insider he feels angry and concerned."We always need to remember that this anger is toward <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/open-criticism-hamas-building-gaza-israeli-offensive-continues-2024-7">Hamas</a> and their brutal tactics," he said.But he added: "Hamas is not our government, they're not accountable to us, and the people who are accountable to us should not be so disattached from the Israeli people, public opinion, and the world opinion that calls for a long time to prioritize human lives and the hostages."He said that Netanyahu and his cabinet were "prioritizing themselves and different military tactics and sacrificing civilians for this."

Israelis are fed up. After a night of protests, the country is going on strike, demanding a Gaza deal.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Soviet Union's strategy that precipitated the US exit from Vietnam holds lessons for Ukraine. </li><li>The Soviets and Chinese provided Vietnam with weapons that negated the US's airpower advantage.</li></ul>Ukraine can defeat Russia if it and its Western backers learn from America's failure in the Vietnam War, a Ukrainian security expert argues.That war has parallels with Ukraine's fight today. The North Vietnamese thwarted vastly superior American firepower with strategies backed by massive Soviet and Chinese military aid. They are a playbook for how Ukraine might compel Russia to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-advisors-peace-plans-ukraine-demilitarized-zone-no-aid-russia-2024-11">make peace</a> within two years, argues Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former top Ukrainian security official and now an analyst for the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank."The example of the Vietnam War is important primarily because victory for Ukraine is possible only if Russian troops are withdrawn from its territory," Danylyuk said in an <a target="_blank" href="https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-newsbrief/lessons-vietnam-ukrainian-victory-plan">essay</a> for RUSI. "The creation of conditions under which Russia cannot and is not willing to continue the war, and therefore is forced to leave Ukraine, should be the strategic goal of the pro-Ukrainian coalition."Danylyuk attributes America's failure in Vietnam to a "protracted multi-dimensional strategy by the Soviet Union, on whose help it was completely dependent." The Soviet Union and China supplied Hanoi with ample weapons and other aid, including anti-aircraft weapons to neutralize the US's airpower advantages. The Soviets sent 15,000 military specialists such as air defense experts, while <a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/05/17/china-admits-combat-in-vietnam-war/6b9cb8a4-4d18-48bf-80d2-bea80f64057c/">China dispatched 320,000 personnel</a> who mostly handled combat support tasks such as logistics, freeing up North Vietnamese manpower for combat duties.Meanwhile, the burden of the war US economy became intolerable, as the Johnson administration refused to raise taxes or cut social programs, leading to deficit spending and inflation. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/largest-marches-us-history-2017-1">Anti-war protests</a> — some incited and financed by the Communist bloc — and war-weariness among the general public led the Nixon administration to withdraw American troops. By the time North Vietnamese tanks entered Saigon in 1975, the US was reeling from recession and high oil prices, with no more appetite to aid South Vietnam.Danylyuk admits that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-facing-powerful-russian-offensive-in-east-grim-outlook-2024-11">Ukraine's situation</a> differs from North Vietnam's in many aspects. "It does not need the presence of allied troops to repel aggression, is not a technologically backward country, and has proven that it cannot only use, but also produce the most modern types of weaponry."Yet, ironically, Danylyuk believes that the keys to defeating Russia's invasion now can be found in the Soviet Union's multi-pronged strategy in Vietnam.<div type="image" title="US Marines wade through a rice paddy in an assault on Viet Cong positions in 1965." height="1383" width="2000" msid="115358659" hostid="261" sizebytes="304174"></div>The first prong of this strategy would be to "stabilize the frontline and to render any successful offensive actions by Russian troops impossible." This would require stopping the Russian <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-turns-tables-russia-drops-glide-bombs-on-its-territory-2024-8">glide bomb</a> attacks that are devastating Ukrainian frontline positions. Rather than trying to stop the bombs themselves, Danylyuk suggests the West provide more fighters armed with long-range air-to-air missiles — in particular <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ukraine-needs-gripen-fighter-jets-long-term-f-16s-2024-10">Sweden's Gripen jet</a> with Meteor missiles — to shoot down Russian aircraft before they can release glide bombs. His paper notes that the Soviets provided Vietnam 155 MiG fighters in three years alone.Or, if the West is willing to provide "several billion dollars," Ukraine can produce enough long-range <a target="_blank" href="https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/romania-and-ukraine-to-develop-neptune-missiles-1722693809.html">Neptune cruise missiles</a> to destroy the Russian airbases and aircraft from which the bombing runs are launched. These weapons would also force Russia to redeploy air defense systems, such as S-300 and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-s-400-formidable-not-quite-up-to-the-hype-2024-5">S-400</a> anti-aircraft missiles, from Ukraine back to Russia. In addition, Ukraine should also try to kill as many Russian troops as possible to force the Kremlin into another mobilization likely to be deeply unpopular. "Accomplishing this task directly depends on Ukraine's ability to achieve fire parity on the contact line, which requires the West, in turn, to produce a sufficient amount of artillery ammunition," Danylyuk said.In 1965, when major US combat operations in Vietnam began, the majority of the American public <a target="_blank" href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1334328/vietnam-war-us-public-opinion-mistake/">backed </a>US intervention. But a US commitment that swelled to 543,000 personnel by 1969, along with growing resentment over the draft and 58,000 American personnel killed, eroded that support.On the economic front, Danylyuk urges the West to bankrupt the Russian war effort by seeking to lower the price of oil, which provides much of Russia's revenues. He points to the collapse of the Soviet Union, caused in part by falling oil prices in the 1980s. This would require other nations to boost oil production to depress prices."It must be recognized that attempts to apply restrictions on the price of Russian oil alone have not worked, and without replacing Russia's share of the world market by increasing production elsewhere, the situation will remain favorable for Moscow," said Danylyuk. Indeed, Saudi Arabia and some of its OPEC allies plan to <a target="_blank" href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/How-Saudi-Oil-Policies-Could-Cripple-Russias-War-Effort.html">produce more oil</a> and cut prices.Psychologically, the West should tap into Russian <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-resisting-crackdown-war-dissidents-paying-2024-3">anti-war sentiment</a> — heavily suppressed by Vladimir Putin's government, but still simmering. "The only explanation for the lack of a mass anti-war movement and large-scale protests is the absence of an organized and popular opposition in Russia," Danylyuk said. "Under such conditions, there is no alternative to providing organizational and financial support for such a movement from the outside."Danylyuk's plan is ambitious, to say the least. Compelling Russia to make peace on the battlefield seems unlikely at least in the short term, as Russian forces advance slowly, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-lost-1200-a-day-highest-since-war-began-intel-2024-5">painfully</a> but inexorably. Whether Saudi Arabia and other oil producers would choose to depress oil prices in the long term remains to be seen. Banking on the Russian public's anti-war sentiment is chancy, given the intense repression and propaganda of Putin's government.But the alternative is even worse, Danylyuk warns. Without a strategy to force Russia to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-trump-picks-mean-for-ukraine-skepticism-time-pressure-2024-11">end the war</a>, the outcome will be to "exhaust Ukraine and the West and allow Russia to implement its own multidimensional plan to end support for Ukraine, according to which Kyiv would be added to the list of cities that have become symbols of the West's geopolitical defeats: Kabul and Saigon."Michael Peck is a defense writer whose work has appeared in Forbes, Defense News, Foreign Policy magazine, and other publications. He holds an MA in political science from Rutgers Univ. Follow him on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.twitter.com/@mipeck1">Twitter</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mipeck/">LinkedIn</a>.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>More executives are seeking protection, a private security firm chief told The Financial Times.</li><li>It comes as companies and CEOs are targeted by political activists.</li></ul>An increasing number of companies appear to be spending big money on trying to keep their executives safe by hiring bodyguards.Steve Jones, the chief executive of security company Allied Universal, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.ft.com/content/a65d8aa1-673e-4620-920c-ec6ac79a303a?accessToken=zwAGJie6Mt7gkdOmXYqhZz5GINOSDOxqx5owOg.MEQCIFxG6p3_3JZEkIK5308UilsiYLPn5KB6jHRgvCT46TWdAiBsUI83XeA3QZKWt8vwHDTuuncjhZPUUiMp568P7c_W8g&amp;sharetype=gift&amp;token=5d647de2-ea1b-4ae3-8d8e-50e552279923">The Financial Times </a>that global political instability had created increased demand for security services.His assessment seems in line with market trends. According to an October report by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/private-security-market-108283">Fortune Business Insights</a>, the global private security market is expected to grow from $247.75 billion in 2024 to $385.32 billion by 2032.Its largest and fastest-growing segment is "manned security," the broad category that includes executive protection.Jones told the FT that businesses linked to Israel and the defense and energy industries were most likely to hire extra security for their staff."We've got wars going on in certain parts of the world, we have elections, we have protests, we have social challenges, we have immigration challenges that face different countries around the world. It all creates a need for additional security," he said.In recent months, activists have targeted a number of high-profile companies and corporate events.In October, several Allianz Insurance buildings in the UK were <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74871k7k73o">sprayed with red paint as part of a national protest by pro-Palestine activists. </a>The Palestine Action Group said it carried out the attacks to protest against Allianz's alleged links to an Israeli defense firm.In June, activists disrupted the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington, DC, to protest about a cloud services deal between Israel's government, Google, Project Nimbus, and Amazon.Meanwhile, climate protesters in Germany in August disrupted European flights after accessing air traffic control centers.Jones told the FT his company employs around 17,000 people, including former police and military personnel, to protect executives and their families. Allied Universal did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Business Insider.Companies can spend millions to protect their CEOs. Meta, for instance, spent $23.4 million on Mark Zuckerberg's personal security in 2023, according to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://archive.is/Y3kdg#selection-1001.136-1001.422">Fortune.</a> Last year, Alphabet paid $6.8 million for Sundar Pichai's personal security.Last year, Alex Bomberg, chief executive of Intelligent Protection International, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/climate-activism-in-the-city-prompts-rise-in-bodyguard-demand-20230619">Financial News </a>that demand for executive security had doubled in 12 months."The role of a bodyguard is not just for security," he said. "You have someone who is highly trained in first aid, experienced in making dynamic risk decisions. It's not just some bloke in a suit."People don't realize how things can play out in the street," he added. "A CEO might go for an interview, and when they arrive, they get something thrown over them. It's not so much about them being robbed, although that's always a concern, but being doorstepped at home by protesters."According to Allied's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.worldsecurityreport.com/">World Security Report, </a>in 2022, companies lost more than $1 trillion in revenue due to physical security incidents.One in four publicly listed companies reported a drop in their value after a physical security incident over the last year, the report said.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Navy has been involved in combat operations in the Middle East for over a year.</li><li>In that time, Navy warships and aircraft in the region have fired $1.85 billion worth of munitions.</li></ul>The US Navy has fired off nearly $2 billion worth of munitions since it began intense combat operations in the Middle East a little over a year ago.Navy warships and aircraft on station in and around the Middle East expended $1.85 billion in munitions on fights in the region between October 7, 2023, to October 1, 2024, a Navy spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider on Thursday.The substantial figure covers the Navy's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-strike-group-scored-over-100-kills-battling-houthis-2024-10">campaign against the Houthis</a> in the Red Sea, which is ongoing, and its efforts to defend Israel from attacks by Iran and its proxies, the official said. That defense includes two instances over the past year in during American warships operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea shot down <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-warship-fires-interceptor-at-iran-ballistic-missiles-video-2024-10">Iranian ballistic missiles</a>.The Houthis began <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/houthis-getting-smarter-red-sea-attacks-ships-paying-the-price-2024-6">attacking merchant shipping lanes</a> in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden shortly after Hamas carried out its October 7 massacre in Israel, and they have also launched missiles and drones at Israel in protest of its devastating Gaza war.The Pentagon sent Navy warships to the Red Sea last fall. Since then, US forces operating in the region have routinely shot down <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-battles-best-iranian-tech-red-sea-admiral-2024-10">Houthi missiles and drones</a>, as well as carried out airstrikes against the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.<div type="image" title="A fighter jet launching from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier at sea." height="3712" width="5568" msid="114826122" hostid="261" sizebytes="328528"></div>The US has also defended Israel from <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-missile-new-combat-got-another-workout-against-iran-2024-10">two massive Iranian attacks</a> over the past year. In both instances — the first on April 13 and then the second on October 1, less than six months later — US Navy warships operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-warships-downed-iranian-missiles-massive-attack-on-israel-2024-10">fired interceptors to engage</a> Iranian ballistic missiles.The $1.85 billion accounts for <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-carrier-strike-group-fired-nearly-800-munitions-houthi-fight-2024-7">hundreds of munitions</a> launched from US warships and aircraft attached to them, including surface-to-air interceptor missiles, land-attack missiles, air-to-air missiles, and air-to-surface bombs. Some of these weapons cost several million dollars a piece.The Navy has previously <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-warships-fired-munitions-substantial-cost-fighting-houthis-2024-8">disclosed its munitions expenditure</a> cost for a single carrier strike group. The Wall Street Journal first <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-runs-low-on-air-defense-missiles-as-demand-surges-7fc9370c?st=a13xHW&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share">reported </a>this latest, notably higher figure for American naval operations under US Central Command this week.The $1.85 billion does not cover Navy engagements after October 1. However, US forces continued to battle the Houthis in the weeks since, including <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/b-2-stealth-bombers-join-red-sea-fight-bomb-houthis-2024-10">carrying out airstrikes</a> against rebel sites in Yemen, meaning the cost of munitions expenditure has only increased.<div type="image" title="The guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely launches a Tomahawk missile" height="667" width="1000" msid="114826124" hostid="261" sizebytes="12232"></div>The figure underscores the growing financial toll of the Navy's Middle East operations, including the high-tempo counter-Houthi campaign which <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-stuck-red-sea-battle-cant-fight-houthis-forever-2024-6#:~:text=US%20Navy%20warships%20are%20stuck,they%20can't%20fight%20forever&amp;text=The%20US%20Navy%20has%20spent,sight%2C%20raising%20questions%20about%20sustainability.">shows no signs of ending</a> and other defensive operations. The high cost has raised questions about sustainability and concerns over <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-burns-through-key-missiles-needed-for-china-fight-2024-10">stockpiles of interceptor missiles</a>, like the Standard Missile-3.When a reporter asked about potential SM-3 shortages this week, a Pentagon spokesperson declined to discuss readiness levels and stockpiles."I think we do a pretty good job of managing our capabilities around the world to ensure that we have what we need, where we need it, to support not only our operations plans but also crises and contingencies," Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said at a Tuesday press briefing."We've demonstrated that on multiple occasions throughout the Middle East, whether it's supporting the defense of Israel, protecting the freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, or addressing threats throughout the Middle East and other places," he added.

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