Amos Yadlin
The Mabam Strategy: Israel, Iran, Syria (and Russia)
In 2017, Israeli fighter jets hit an Iranian weapons facility in Syria, and such strikes have continued over the last 18 months. But as Assad solidifies his victory in the Syrian civil war while Iranian and Russian forces remain on the ground, the next Israeli government must rethink its strategy in “the campaign between the wars,” known in Hebrew as mabam.
Strategic Imperatives
In his new book, Charles Freilich examines the question of how future governments ought to cope with Israel's fundamental defense predicaments.
Israel’s Northern Border and the Chaos in Syria: A Symposium
In the four-plus years since the Arab Spring, regimes have fallen, alliances have shifted and re-shifted, and new (and terrifying) actors have appeared on the scene. The diplomatic and strategic assumptions of several decades seem to have been upended. Nowhere is this more dramatically apparent than across Israel’s northern border. What, if anything, should Israel do about the Syrian crisis?