The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Why Israel’s New Military Strategy Would Terrify the Country’s Founders

Jun 23, 2025

Steven Simon, Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the Davidson Institute for Global Security, writes an opinion piece in The Forward about Israel’s military strategy and its shift away from short wars and toward wars that rely on the engagement of powerful allies, primarily the United States.

Read it here.

It’s possible that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu figured out how to break the code on how to invoke U.S. military involvement without also inviting unwelcome limits on his approach to warfighting, or his war aims.

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