Click here to download the JINSA Insight For decades, the Eastern Mediterranean was treated as peripheral to Middle Eastern conflict. Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion have ended that assumption. The region is now an operational theater in its own…

Click here to download the JINSA Insight After four weeks of Epic Fury against Iran, the majority of Americans, and perhaps President Donald Trump himself, appear focused on the same question posed by General David Petraeus in Iraq: “tell me…

Click here to download the JINSA Insight. I. Introduction: The Wrong Frame The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) started the year cautiously neutral, balancing between Washington and Tehran, and carefully managing exposure on both sides. Prior to the operation, Qatar, the…

Click here to download the JINSA Insight. Israel’s reported offer for the United States to relocate certain Middle East bases to Israel builds on JINSA’s November 2025 report recommending U.S. basing options at Ovda Airbase in that country. This recommendation…