The IDF is gradually shaping a new security reality on the northern border. No longer is it a “security strip” in the narrow, tactical sense, but a broader concept: a security space. This space does not mean static defense alone,…

Israel’s answer to Hezbollah rocket fire in 2023 was to empty its northern border towns. This time the calculus has changed: it is keeping residents in place and taking the fight deeper into Lebanon instead. … “Israel is facing two…

Israeli officials are riding out a rare public rebuke from US President Donald Trump over the handling of the Iran war, a break from previously tight military coordination between the two allies. After an Israeli airstrike on Iran’s giant South Pars gas…

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine stood side by side at their March 4 briefing on the Iran war, they each offered what they called the mission’s clear, decisive…