America’s depleted arsenal of premier offensive and defensive weapons is undermining President Trump’s leverage with Iran. … Ari Cicurel, the associate director of foreign policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, said Iran seeing the American reluctance…
For close to eight decades, the pattern of the U.S.-Israel alliance has been very predictable: Washington will supply billions in military aid, and in return Israel will buy American-made weapons. However, a little-known provision in this year’s defense budget could…
America needs a tough, capable ally right now — not a fair-weather friend, not a country that ghosts us the moment things get hard. Israel is that ally. No nation on Earth matches its military muscle, intelligence reach, technological edge,…
A coalition of Sunni regional powers signed a historic joint defense pact on Friday, but national security experts expressed deep unease over the arrangement, arguing that it reflects U.S. shortcomings in the Middle East while raising serious questions about its…
Though US, Israeli, and European diplomatic efforts have focused for years on limiting Iran’s nuclear program, the Strait of Hormuz has lately become the center of gravity of the on-again, off-again war between the US and Iran. … “The Saudis,…
Experts are expressing growing concern over reports that an emerging deal between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could grant Tehran unprecedented oversight over the international shipping route, ceding control to Iran that it did not possess…
The Iranian regime is reportedly nearing an interim deal with Oman and the United States for a new security model in the Strait of Hormuz. History—including recent events—shows that the Iranian regime will almost certainly attempt to violate this…
The war between Russia and Ukraine and the conflict that has pitted the U.S. and Israel against Iran are distinct political clashes driven by unique regional dynamics, but the lines separating them have become blurred, former senior military officials said Wednesday on a JINSA webinar. … “It so happens…
Experts are warning that the United States’ dwindling stockpiles of long‑range missiles and air-defense interceptors following the war with Iran could complicate Washington’s ability to deter adversarial aggression and maintain military readiness in other theaters. … Ari Cicurel, an associate…
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and former head of the National Security Council, spoke with Ron Kofman and Aryeh Eldad on 103FM about “Trump’s swing,” as Aryeh Eldad called…