Ofer Winter and the Need to Restore Decisive Victory to Israel’s National Security Doctrine
by Zaki Shalom
When the First Intifada erupted in December 1987, Israel initially treated it as a wave of public disorder that could be suppressed through military force. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin adopted a forceful policy, subsequently associated with the controversial phrase “break their bones.” Yet Rabin, IDF Chief of Staff Dan Shomron, and the senior security establishment […]
Iran Strikes Saudi Arabia’s Economic Core Through Yemen and Iraq
by Michael Gfoeller
The strike on Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline represents a major strategic escalation by the mortally wounded Islamic Republic of Iran, carried out through its proxies in Iraq. On Friday, September 11, the Saudi Energy Ministry said the line had been attacked on Thursday morning in the Riyadh and Medina regions and shut “as a […]
Beyond Defense: The Strategic Case for an India-Israel Industrial Partnership
by Dr. Yashwant Singh
The India-Israel relationship is conventionally narrated through defence sales, intelligence sharing, and agricultural technology transfer. This framing, while accurate, is incomplete. It obscures a more consequential possibility: that the two countries’ most durable strategic convergence may lie in co-developing the technologies that will define 21st-century manufacturing: heavy electrical equipment, industrial automation, and robotics. Unlike defence […]