It wasn’t October 7. It’s the continuing avoidance of military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon. It has become conventional wisdom after Oct. 7 that Israel for years had the wrong policy toward Gaza. While the unfathomable catastrophe of that day…
For months, the Biden administration has been pursuing an ambitious diplomatic project to design a new Middle East for a new era. But the old Middle East, it turns out, still has something to say about it. The stunning Hamas…
Featuring: IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror JINSA Gemunder Center Distinguished Fellow Lt. Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi Founder and CEO of ALMA John Hannah JINSA Gemunder Center Senior Fellow
Featuring: LtGen Richard Natonski, USMC (ret.) JINSA Hybrid Warfare Policy Project Member; JINSA Gaza Assessment Policy Project Member LTC Geoffrey S. Corn, USA (ret.) JINSA Hybrid Warfare Policy Project Member; JINSA Distinguished Fellow Jonathan Ruhe JINSA Director of Foreign…
With a ceasefire announced in Gaza, it’s crucial to apply the lessons-learned to a likely future conflict with Hezbollah, and likely Iran, in Lebanon and beyond. As The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) has laid out in…
Hamas is playing a dangerous game. The terror organization is illegally and indiscriminately firing Iranian-provided rockets at Israeli civilian centers. It hopes to provoke Israel into reacting as Israel has before: with short-term, withering Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military action…
Featuring: IDF MG (ret.) Yaakov Amidror JINSA Distinguished Fellow IDF BG (ret.) Michael Herzog International Fellow, Washington Institute Erielle Davidson JINSA Senior Policy Analyst
The Biden administration has sought to differentiate itself from its predecessor in many arenas, foreign policy included. Yet it has endorsed a self-evident truth acknowledged by the Trump administration, and indeed that of President Barack Obama: something is broken at…
From movies to tell-all books, America loves its special operators. But a crushing pace of operations and an ever-expanding definition of what constitutes a “special operation” has spread Special Operations Forces far too thin, making it more important than ever…
The world looked on in horror as two massive explosions ripped through Beirut on Aug. 4, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands. Lebanon’s president attributed the disaster to 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that were improperly stored at…