Images of Russia’s unrestrained brutality in its war against Ukraine evoke visceral and instinctive condemnation. They offer the world deeply troubling visual evidence of the worst of humanity that results from unleashing ill-disciplined armed forces fighting on behalf of a…
Over the past two decades information was mostly conceptualized as a supporting effort to combat: information contributed to tactical and operational success. Given today’s immediately interconnected world, the character of war is changing with the blurring of the lines between…
One of the most indelible images from this spring’s Gaza conflict is the Israeli night sky streaked with rockets and Iron Dome interceptors rising to meet them. However, as the authors found on a detailed fact-finding trip to Israel this…
Following the May outbreak of fighting in Gaza, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America gathered 10 former top American military officers to study the conflict and draw conclusions for how it could apply to Pentagon operations in the…
In its conflict with Hamas in May, Israel endured a barrage of rockets — as well as war-crime accusations. Iron Dome intercepted most of the former. The latter are more dangerous, for Israel and even the United States. After reviewing…
Keynote: Representative Elaine Luria (D-VA) U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria represents Virginia’s Second Congressional District Panel of JINSA Experts: GEN Charles Wald, USAF (ret.) Former Deputy Commander of United States European Command (EUCOM) Lt Gen Robert Ashley, Jr., USA (ret.)…
The IDF complied with the law of armed conflict and “consistently implemented precautions to mitigate civilian risk,” during the May 10-21 Gaza War, a Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) said in a report released on Thursday. In addition,…
A new assessment of the Gaza conflict in May concludes that the conflict shows why the US, Israel and others should cooperate against the kinds of emerging threats we saw in May. The report was compiled by the Gaza Assessment Task Force…
The Islamic State group is losing territory in direct combat with US air and, increasingly, ground forces. That’s the good news. The bad news is it will try to offset these losses through increasingly brutal and illicit tactics. Consider recent…
A task force of retired United States generals visited Israel in December – investigating the tactics and strategy of the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge. On July 22, two members of that group, retired Lt.…