Hostages
In 2025, Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Not Over
As the new year begins, Israel will need to find a strategy for the war in Gaza. Several factors are at play in this decision. First, the war has gone...
How Delta Force Prepares to Rescue Hostages in Real Life
My time training in cities under the watch and control of local law enforcement was invaluable, to say the least. I can’t dream of a better city training scenario than...
Benjamin Netanyahu is Playing with Fire
“There is no greater commandment than the redemption of captives.” Thus states the authoritative Code of Jewish Law. The injunctions of his religion have cut no ice with Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Turkey Holds NATO to Ransom
In the Middle Ages, holding a knight to ransom was standard practice on the battlefield; it is still routine in international relations today. For example, last December Russia traded basketball player...
Negotiating with Hamas Is a Means to Defeating Them
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas as a military and political force in Gaza. This is a worthy goal and one that President Biden and members of Congress from both...
U.S. Special Forces are Ready to Help Israel Rescue Its Hostages
The world’s eyes are fixed on the war between Israel and Hamas following the terrorist organization’s surprise attack on Israel over the weekend. As the dust settles down, the real...
Can Israel Save Its Captured Citizens from Hamas?
Hamas, the Gaza-based Palestinian militant group that mounted a deadly surprise attack on Israel that has killed – at last count – at least 1,200 Israelis, has captured what are estimated...
“Flags of Convenience” Flout Iran Sanctions
While security experts and policymakers cry foul at the recent U.S.-Iran hostage exchange, the $6 billion in unfrozen assets that will be used by the Iranian regime, as a result,...
Russia’s American Hostages: The Marc Fogel Case
On August 14, 2021, Marc Fogel, a then sixty-year-old teacher at the Anglo-American School (AAS) in Moscow, was arrested at an airport in Moscow with fewer than 20 grams of...
Taliban Frees U.S. Hostage in Swap for Afghan Drug Lord
The U.S. government announced on Monday that it had conducted a prisoner exchange with the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, freeing an American civil engineer and U.S. Navy veteran from the...
Viktor Bout’s Attorney ‘Confident’ Griner and Whelan Swap Will Happen
Steve Zissou, the attorney of convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, has stated that he is “confident” that the proposed prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S....
Russian Official Rejects U.S. ‘Wrongful Detention’ Charge Over Brittney Griner
A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman has stated that the United States is showing disrespect for Russian law by characterizing WNBA star Brittney Griner’s jailing on drug charges as “wrongful detention,”...