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Israel SitRep: September 4, 2024

Today’s Issue: | Hezbollah Fires Some 65 Rockets at Israel, IAF Responds With Strikes in Southern Lebanon | IDF Arrests 14 in West Bank Overnight | IDF Troops in Rafah Eliminate More Than 200 Terrorists,...

Iran Reportedly Will Send Hundreds of Ballistic Missiles to Russia

Iran will imminently deliver hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia for its war against Ukraine, Reuters reported on August 9, citing two European intelligence sources. Dozens...

Justice Sotomayor dangerously misunderstands our military 

Excerpt Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor may be a constitutional law expert, but she apparently is unaware of a key limitation on executive power: our American troops.  In her...

Iranian President Pezeshkian will not open a new chapter for Iran-Israel relations

The Iranian regime is not just the president and President Masoud Pezeshkian will not have much power to recast Iran’s role in the region.

Twenty Years of Israel-U.S. Air Defense Investment Pays Off

Israel’s successful interception of Iran’s massive drone and missile attack underscores the success of military cooperation between Washington and Jerusalem.

United States Cyber Force

A Defense Imperative

No Incentives for Terrorism: U.S. Implementation of the Taylor Force Act and Efforts to Stop ‘Pay to Slay’

Iran’s Escalating Threats: Assessing U.S. Policy Toward Iran’s Malign Activities

Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Two Weeks In

Nearly two weeks into their long-awaited counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces have made some initial tactical gains while also taking significant losses. However, the offensive has yet to reach its decisive...

Cult of the Cossack Helps Explain Ukraine’s Resistance

Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a whole generation has grown up studying how their ancestors were starved to death on orders from Moscow.

History explains Ukraine’s tenacious resistance to Russia

There is a saying that you can push a meek and mild Ukrainian all the way until his forehead touches the ground. Then, he arises a Cossack. With Russia’s frontal attack on Ukraine, the foreheads of 40...

‘Indo-Pacific is a priority: Message from White House document’

Alexandria, VA.: In this edition of “Indo-Pacific: Behind the Headlines”, we speak with Col. David Maxwell (Ret.), a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C. about...

How Loitering Munitions Can Help Counter China

“Suicide drones” are already tapped to fill various roles, but more are needed, and faster.

Lessons from the Philippines: Irregular Warfare in Action

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the world watched as the United States began a punitive expedition to Afghanistan to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, oust the Taliban, and prevent the use of Afghanistan...

What To Expect When You’re Expecting A National Defense Strategy

Excerpt In July, Rear Adm. Mike Studeman, director of intelligence for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warned that “it’s only a matter of time” until China resorts to military force and suggested that...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Early August

Biden Gets It Wrong in the Pacific and Afghanistan

To support the Biden administration’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon plans to shift the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier strike group from its normal area of responsibility in...

This could be Army Futures Command’s moment of truth

The top U.S. military officer in the Pacific, Adm. Phil Davidson, warned last week that China could undertake a military attack against Taiwan within the next six years. To convince Beijing that it cannot...

Eyeing China, Biden Pentagon Nominee Advocates for Robust Defense Budget

The perennial guns versus butter debate was in full bloom Tuesday, during the Senate nomination hearing for Dr. Kathleen Hicks to serve as the deputy secretary of defense—the number two position at...

Is Esper’s New Plan For The Navy Enough For The Indo-Pacific?

Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would have a hard time fighting China, but this might be nothing compared to infighting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his successors will have to manage to build...