Strategy

On May 22, the UK government of Labour’s Keir Starmer signed a treaty with the island nation of Mauritius, a former British colony in the Indian Ocean, to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a seven-atoll archipelago that includes the Diego Garcia military base. Though the deal contains protections for this base, it also raises […]

The surprise was total and horrific—Israeli men, women and children brutally killed or taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Israel’s vaunted intelligence services failed to provide adequate warning, its military—the Israeli Defense Forces—failed to provide adequate security, and Israeli political leadership remained cocooned in their comfortable assumptions about risks to Israeli security posed by Palestinians in […]

Israel’s defense doctrine should be reassessed, if deterrence is irrelevant to anti-guerilla and anti-terror warfare

To understand the underlying reasons of the war in Ukraine, one must look at the manner in which Russia looks upon the world and upon NATO and the EU.

Is the world actually becoming more peaceful? And if so, why?

War is a human endeavor, and the assessment of warlike trends is too important to be left to machines

What made Australia withdraw from the contract it signed with France for advanced submarines?

Does the growing importance of the psychological dimension in modern conflicts put the US and its allies at a disadvantage?

Military diplomacy is totally unnoticed in Israel, but in fact plays a significant role in shaping reality

Israel’s Lebanon Syndrome, the US’ Afghanistan Syndrome: Different military stories, similar conclusions

For some, the higher the cost, the stronger the claim to be the true representatives of values worth dying for