Middle East War

Israel Should Be Careful What It Wishes For
Projecting a Churchillian pose during his address before Congress in July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted that the United States and Israel need to “stand together” in combatting Iran’s...

Iran’s Great Ballistic Missile Attack Gamble
On October 1, Iran launched 181 ballistic missiles at Israel. Israel was prepared for the escalation, having learned of it earlier in the day from the United States. Israel’s Home...

Israel’s New Rules of War
Netanyahu knows that there is no modern world. In the Middle East there is only the continuation of the ancient. Despite technology, humankind has not morally progressed, even as Israel...

Our Last Chance to Avoid War in the Middle East
Just before the 2020 Presidential elections, I published a book—The Eleventh Hour in 2020 America—in which I laid out the deterioration of American foreign policy and what the next administration...

Ismail Haniyeh’s Assassination Will Expand the Israel-Iran Conflict
Israel’s decision to assassinate Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, although not yet claimed by Tel Aviv, and Lebanese Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr on July 30 and 31 is sending...

Is a New War in the Middle East About to Erupt?
Militants in Gaza fired rockets into Israel on Monday, prompting retaliatory strikes from the Israeli Defense Forces. Jerusalem announced earlier that it had killed three Islamic Jihad commanders and another...

What the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 Can Teach Us Today
It is widely agreed that there are three levels of war. From the general to the local, they are the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Strategy is the alignment of...