Is Israel’s Military Ready for Future Challenges?
Its priorities still reflect what exists today.
July 9, 2018
Is Israel’s Military Ready for Future Challenges?
Its priorities still reflect what exists today.
In a detailed study of the Israel Defense Force’s size, structure, and capabilities, Kenneth Brower traces its development from the underequipped fledgling army of 1948 to the technologically sophisticated and much-feared military of today. But, Brower argues, in the past decade the IDF has become too focused on counterterrorism and urban warfare and too reliant on defensive, high-tech systems—like its Iron Dome air defenses—at the expense of conventional capabilities, and it thus may not be ready for the what lies ahead:
July 9, 2018
Israel and Australia Join the U.S. in Punishing the Palestinian Authority for Rewarding Terror
The Taylor Force Act and its new equivalents.
The Past and Future of Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Community
Change is afoot, but its direction is uncertain.
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Speech to Jewish Communists about the Warsaw Ghetto
And the priestly blessing.
What the Afghan Genizah Reveals about Persian and Central Asian Jewry
Jews of the Silk Road.