McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

August 14, 2024 | |

U.S. Approves Major Arms Sale to Israel

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November 14, 2023 | |

U.S. Military Strikes Iran-Backed Groups in Syria

Latest Developments The U.S. military on November 12 conducted its third set of airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria. The airstrikes, which reportedly killed around six or seven Iranian proxy...

November 8, 2023 | Joe Truzman, Bill Roggio

U.S. launches second strike on Iranian assets in Syria

The U.S. military launched its second airstrike in Syria in an attempt to pressure Iran to halt its militia proxies’ attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. The Iran-backed militias have attacks U.S....

November 7, 2023 | |

Pentagon Deploys Ohio-Class Guided Missile Submarine to the Middle East 

Latest Developments  An Ohio-class guided missile submarine (SSGN) arrived in the Middle East on November 5, according to a press release by the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. Capable of carrying...

November 2, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

The key figures leading Israel’s military campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza

Here are the masterminds directing each aspect of the IDF operation

October 9, 2023 | |

In Support of Israel, U.S. Sends Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to Eastern Mediterranean

The United States announced on October 8 that it is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Eastern Mediterranean in support of Israel. The naval force includes...

June 21, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

A C2 Structure for a Strong U.S.-Japan Alliance

This commentary is part of the Exploring New Horizons: Japan’s Defense Priorities project, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by leading Japanese and American scholars examining the implications...

December 1, 2022 | |

Eyeing Iran, the U.S. and Israel Conduct Combined Air Exercise

The United States Air Force and the Israeli Air Force began a combined air exercise in Israel on Tuesday that includes fighter aircraft from both countries and a U.S. air refueling tanker. The exercise helps build the readiness of both air forces and their ability to operate together while honing some of the exact capabilities Israel would need to conduct a successful kinetic strike against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program. While a Pentagon spokesperson portrayed the exercise as routine, statements from the Israeli prime minister and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) left little doubt about their intended audience in Tehran.

September 2, 2022 | Bradley Bowman, Ryan Brobst

Pentagon Announces Contract for Israeli KC-46s but Has More Work To Do

The Pentagon announced on Wednesday an up to $927 million foreign military sale contract with Boeing to provide Israel four KC-46A air refueling aircraft, with the first currently expected to arrive in...

February 12, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Jacob Nagel

Taking a closer look at Israel’s weapons wish list

Eyeing Iran and its terrorist proxies in Syria and Lebanon, Israel’s Cabinet approved on Feb. 7 an Israeli Air Force request to use U.S. foreign military financing and loans to fund approximately $9...

December 15, 2016 | John Cappello

Should the United States Sell Fighter Jets to the Gulf?

The timing and phasing of recent U.S. arms deals in the Middle East underscore the complicated balance for the United States of addressing the concerns and needs of multiple partners in the regio...

April 14, 2016 | Oren Kessler |

Egypt hands strategic Red Sea islands to Saudis, and Israel doesn’t object

Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement Saturday for Cairo to return control of two uninhabited but strategic Red Sea islands to the kingdom. The islands — Tiran and Sanafir — lie...

October 23, 2015 | |

Is Israel About to Lose Its Edge in the Air?

In a September 2 letter to Congress, Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that Washingto...

May 15, 2015 |

The Camp David Summit: Major or modest moves in U.S.-Gulf ties?

In the run up to Thursday's summit at Camp David, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had predicted that &ldq...

March 5, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal New York Daily News |

Israel Has the Power to Knock Out Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

Israel's “determination to prevent confrontation states . . . from gaining access to nuclear weapons” is the preemptive foreign policy doctrine of the Jewish state. Thos...

February 23, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Can Israel Take Out Iran’s Nuclear Facilities?

In the past week, competing analyses have appeared in the German daily Die Welt and the New York Times, supporting vastly different conclusions about how much the Israeli milita...

July 12, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban attempts to spark Afghan-Pakistan border incident

A cross-border incident that resulted in Pakistani and Afghan security forces casualties was launched by the Taliban with the intent to "to spark a border incident," the International Sec...