Against the backdrop of Hezbollah’s ceasefire violations in Lebanon, a web of complex factors are now at play. … JINSA Distinguished Fellow MajGen (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, former head of Israel’s National Security Council, gave his assessment of Israel’s policy of…
The U.S. is racing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Iran threatens one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes, testing a Navy that has recently retired most of its dedicated minesweepers and is now relying on a smaller…
The United States, Israel, and Iran reached a two-week ceasefire agreement on April 7, which President Donald Trump extended indefinitely on April 21. The update below includes information since JINSA’s last update as of April 24 at 10:00 am ET.…
Click here to download the JINSA Insight Introduction The 2026 Iran war has forced a strategic reckoning on every state in the Persian Gulf, but none more acutely than the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Over the past fifteen years, the…