National Security Briefs

National Security Briefs

Hezbollah’s use of drones marks a notable and unprecedented escalation of its attacks on Israel, and will continue posing acute threats. Difficult to track and identify, yet precise, these weapons can overwhelm and evade Israel’s advanced air defenses to neutralize

On June 19, the MV Tutor sank in the Red Sea after the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen launched an unmanned surface vessel (USV) that struck it the previous week. That this was only the second ship that has been sunk

Hezbollah launched 870 anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), rockets, and one-way attack drones against Israel between June 1 and June 20, already marking a single-month record thus far in the war and a 43 percent increase in the number of total

Despite growing Chinese investment in Israel’s economy, China has clearly demonstrated that its interest in Israel is purely instrumental and subordinate to its global ambitions of supplanting the United States on the world stage. Since October 7, China has calculated