National Security Briefs

National Security Briefs

Israel Preempts Hezbollah Attack

On August 25, Israel disrupted a planned, massive Hezbollah attack by preemptively striking and neutralizing roughly two-thirds of the projectiles that the terrorist group planned to launch from southern Lebanon. Hezbollah nevertheless managed to fire at least 230 rockets and

While Jerusalem and Washington wait for an Iranian and/or Hezbollah attack against Israel fol-lowing the killing of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, it appears that Iran has already started to retaliate against U.S. troops in the region. Iranian proxies have

In addition to its tactical accomplishments in Rafah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) achieved a significant strategic objective by securing control of the Gaza side of the Gaza-Egypt border, which had for years enabled cross-border smuggling of weapons and raw

Israel-Hezbollah tensions have dramatically escalated following Hezbollah’s July 29 rocket attack, which killed 12 children in the Golan Heights, and Israel’s retaliatory targeted airstrike on Beirut, which killed Hezbollah’s seniormost military commander. The growing likelihood of full-scale war between Hezbollah