Sticks, Not Carrots
How Joe Biden can make his return to the Iran nuclear deal less awful. After more than two months of intense negotiations in Vienna, the odds are high that at some point this summer, the United States and Iran will…
Analysis & Commentary
Could Israel Replicate Its Syrian Military Strategy in Gaza?
When the new Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, addressed his new “change” cabinet this week, he said Israel is “at the outset of new days.” That’s immediately clear about the country’s politics, but for Israel to make progress in Gaza,…
The Status Quo in Gaza Is the Least-Bad Option
To understand the future of the Gaza Strip, it’s necessary to consider the origins of the most recent round of fighting. Hamas’s missile barrage on Jerusalem began during a week fraught with tension. Two events and three significant dates—each of…
Modernizing NATO Requires Dealing With Turkey
The agenda of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit next week in Brussels will be dominated by questions of how to transform the Cold War-era alliance of democracies to face twenty-first-century challenges from authoritarian states like Russia and China.…
Pledges to Restore Israel’s Defenses Must Go Beyond the Iron Dome
President Joe Biden’s pledge, reiterated by some Republican senators, to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome interceptors following the recent Gaza war is most welcome. But they should go further. Another class of weapons — precision-guided munitions (PGMs) — also were vital…
U.S. Must Strengthen Israel’s Deterrence
President Biden’s public pledge to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome would boost Israeli defenses, but is insufficient to deter another war. To minimize the potential for another conflict, Israel needs further upgrades to its air defenses and access to advanced U.S. precision weapons. Since the last…
FOXNews interview with JINSA Senior Policy Analyst Erielle Davidson on U.S./Israel tension over Iran
Erielle Davidson is a Senior Policy Analyst at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.
Gaza Proves that Iran’s Next War on Israel Will Be Far Bloodier
As horrible as the recent fighting in Gaza was, it’s important that the Biden administration realize that the eleven-day conflict served as a dry run for the much larger and more devastating war that Iran is planning to wage against…
NewsMax interview with JINSA Senior Policy Analyst Erielle Davidson on Hamas
Erielle Davidson is a Senior Policy Analyst at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.
The ICC’s Fundamental Design Flaws Have Only Become More Evident
In 2014, I argued in this publication that the ICC suffers from fundamental structural defects that have rendered it an obstacle to peace in most of the conflicts in which it has inserted itself, and that until those defects are…