Two of the world’s most dangerous insurgent groups—Yemen’s Houthis and Somalia’s al-Shabaab—are now working together across the Gulf of Aden. Their operational alliance is already stretching U.S. forces thin across two theaters, exploiting the seam between U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)…
Click here to read a transcript. The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have continued to escalate their assault on Israel, launching at least 26 missiles and drones in September, one of which struck Ramon Airport. Since March, the Houthis have targeted…
Click here to read a transcript. On September 9, Israel struck Hamas’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar, marking the first known Israeli military operation within Qatar’s borders. Operation Summit of Fire targeted Hamas’s most senior leaders, including Khalil al-Hayya, and ended…
JINSA is issuing a new report from its Hertog Distinguished Fellow and former CENTCOM Commander Gen Frank McKenzie, USMC (ret.) that lays out the risks inherent in America’s current basing structure in the Middle East, its vulnerabilities in a looming…
Threats to the United States and its citizens from the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terror proxies have reached a fever pitch, with no clear U.S. policy for how to stop it. Tehran is perched on the nuclear threshold,…
Iran’s nuclear weapons program has crept closer and closer toward breakout. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence reported in July 2024 that Iran has “undertaken activities that better position [Iran] to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do…
The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) is dedicated to educating Congressional, military and civilian national security decision-makers on American defense and strategic interests, primarily in the Middle East, the cornerstone of which is a robust U.S.-Israeli security…
Featuring: IDF BG Effie Defrin Head of the International Cooperation Division; JINSA’s 2019 IDF Brigadier Generals Military Leadership Education Program participant Charles B. Perkins Director for U.S.-Israel Security Policy
Featuring: IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror JINSA Distinguished Fellow IDF BG (ret.) Michael Herzog International Fellow, Washington Institute Erielle Davidson JINSA Senior Policy Analyst
Featuring: Michael Makovsky, PhD JINSA President & CEO Nikos Christodoulides Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Cyprus