israeli military facing many challenges
Volume 3, Number 36 •March 8, 2010

Reinventing Warfare
Amnon Barzilai
Ha'aretz. March 3, 2010
Even before the terror attacks on the U.S., several thinkers considered the nature of future warfare and predicted it would change dramatically. See the whole story, please click here.

Hybrid Wars and Challenges
Frank G. Hoffman
First Quarter 2009
Read about the challenges of modern warfare, please click here.

An Incremental Leap in Defence Deployment of the Civilian Front
Elran Meir
INSS Insight No. 157. January 20, 2010
In early 2010 the Israeli public and the country’s enemies learned of two significant developments with regard to the defensive capacities of the civilian front. Find out more about these developments, please click here.

Israel's Qualitative Edge
Shoshanna Bryen
Right Side News. January 23, 2010
The Forward started it in December. Ha'aretz picked up the theme this month, writing, "The Bush administration violated security related agreements with Israel in which the U.S. promised to preserve the IDF's qualitative military edge (QME) over Arab armies, according to senior officials in the Obama administration and Israel," Get a view of Israel's Qualitative Military Edge, please click here.

Perspectives

"Ze'ev Schiff Memorial Lecture.” Speaker: Ehud Barak
Washington Institute for Near East Policy. February 26, 2010
View a transcript of Ehud Barak's speech, please click here.

Stuart A. Cohen: Israel’s Strategic Agenda and Challenges
Machla Abramovitz
Talk given at Canadian Institute for Jewish Research offices. November 23, 2009
For a review of the presentation as well as an interview with Stuart Cohen, please click here.

Israel’s Iron-Dome Missile Interceptor to Become Operational by May 2010
The Intelligence Daily. January 15, 2010
This Defence Update. Includes Video in Hebrew, View this update, please click here.

Israel’s Lebanese War: a Preliminary Assessment
Martin Van Creveld
RUSI Journal. Vol. 151. Iss. 5. Pg 40 -44. October 2006
Includes link to. “Inside Israel’s Army.” NOW. PBS. July 17, 2009 with video. Find our more about Israel's Lebanon War, please click here.

Letters to the Editor
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Links to Articles of Interest

Submarines Proliferation: Israel Current Capabilities
NTI. Non-Proliferation Treaty. February 2, 2010

Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield
Charles Levinson
Wall St. Journal. January 13, 2010

The ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ Shocks But does Not Awe Israeli Commission
Haninah Levine
Center for Defence Information. June 11, 2007

Tech Undermining Israeli Army?
DT. Defence Tech. July 18, 2006

The Second Lebanese War: Strategic Perspective
Edited by Shlomo Brom and Meir Elran
INSS. Institute for National Security Studies. 2007

Hamas in Gaza – Urban Warfare Strategy
Col. Jonathan Fighel
ICT. January 11, 2009

Second Annual International Conference: Security Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
INSS. October 17, 2008

Israel’s Military Option for Iran: Not “If”, But “When”
Lt. Col. Rick Francona
Basil and Spice. January 21, 2010.

Israel shrinking its citizens’ army
Matthew Gutman
USA Today. June 5, 2006

Analysis/ Two Years on, IDF is starting to look like an army that can fight a war
Amos Harel
Haaretz. July 10, 2008