Analysis
Thursday, June 19th 2025
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, June 17, 2025 “Iran is unquestionably the weakest link in the global axis of anti-American disruption, which includes our most bitter rivals, China and Russia.” Entering their fifth day, Israel’s sustained and extraordinary operations against Iran have demonstrated remarkable strategic precision and military effectiveness. […]
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Benjamin Jensen Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 13, 2025 “While the operation is still ongoing, Rising Lion is a harbinger of how the U.S. Department of Defense needs to adapt to the changing character of war.” Just after midnight on June 13, 2025, an Israeli operation codenamed Rising Lion unfolded in two distinct but […]
Armin Rosen Tablet, June 17, 2025 “Can Israel destroy Fordow without American help? Yeah, I think so.” The United States is the only country in the world with the ability to destroy the Fordow nuclear facility quickly from the air, something we could accomplish by dropping a couple 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on […]
Thursday, June 19th 2025 / Thursday, June 19th 2025
Kasra Aarabi Engelsberg Ideas, June 18, 2025 “While the IRGC has spent time, resources and blood over the decades in its costly pursuit of the nuclear weaponisation threshold, this pillar has always remained more aspirational than assured.” As Israel’s targeted strikes inside Iran continue, the longer-term implications for the Iranian regime’s military doctrine and […]
Wednesday, June 18th 2025
Mathias Döpfner Politico, June 16, 2025 “If Israel does not achieve its goals — destruction of the nuclear facilities, maximum weakening of the terrorist regime and, ideally, the removal of the mullahs — the world will quickly look very different.” When a society can no longer distinguish between good and evil, between victim and […]
Avi Kalo Ynet News, June 16, 2025 “As the U.S. establishment voices praise for the IDF’s overwhelming operational success, it may also signal the erosion of a longstanding objection in Washington — held by successive presidents and much of the American intelligence community for over two decades — against a kinetic strike on Iran.” […]
Alexander Ward, Lara Seligman and Dustin Volz WSJ, June 17, 2025 “I don’t care what she said, I think they were very close to having them.” Before launching its attack on Iran last week, Israel provided the U.S. with intelligence it deemed alarming: Tehran was conducting renewed research useful for a nuclear weapon, including on an […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2025 “… by February or March, IDF intelligence shifted its focus from concentrating on one center of gravity to multiple ones.” While all kinds of political and strategic stories in Israel, the US, and Iran led to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give the order to go to […]
Tuesday, June 17th 2025 / Tuesday, June 17th 2025
Editorial Board WSJ, June 15, 2025 “Mr. Trump endorsed the initial attacks, though he continues to suggest that the bombing could increase the chances of a negotiated deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.” Israel continues to bomb key Iranian military sites, while Iran is firing missiles at Israeli cities. Central to an Israeli strategic […]
Tuesday, June 17th 2025
Peter Wildeford The Power Law, June 13, 2025 “This is the Fordow Paradox — the US can destroy Fordow while Israel cannot; Israel wants Fordow destroyed while the US does not.” About the author: Peter Wildeford is a top forecaster, ranked top 1% every year since 2022. Here, he shares the news and analysis that […]
Seth Cropsey WSJ, June 16, 2025 “Absent proxies, nuclear potential and a missile arsenal, Iran would lose its leverage over the Gulf states and its coercive potential against Israel and in the Levant.” The U.S. faces a consequential choice: take advantage of Israel’s audacious attacks on Iran to shepherd a new Middle East into […]
Noah Rothman National Review, June 13, 2025 “The Israelis have many lessons to teach us, but foremost among them is that there is no substitute for victory.” It hasn’t even been two weeks since the Ukrainians pulled off a defensive operation of such magisterial competence that it could only be compared with the feats achieved by Israel’s […]
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