A Reporter in Israel, 1989: Weapons, Checkpoints, and Deadly Cross-Border Attacks From Southern Lebanon

by Martin Kufus

If Hezbollah’s rocket barrages into northern Israel seem to be a recent phenomenon, they aren’t. As former Soldier of Fortune magazine editor Martin Kufus writes, deadly cross-border attacks from southern Lebanon began decades ago. The following is an excerpt from chapter “L is for Lebanon” of his nonfiction book.

Despite having spent a month in the Sahara during the “Bright Star ’83” joint US-Egyptian military exercise, I’d never fully grasped the Middle East’s complexities until six years later...