BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,281, June 18, 2024
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Iranโs revenge missile attack on Israel on the night of April 13-14, 2024, the first-ever direct attack by Iran on Israel, was by no means a minor gesture intended …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,260, February 1, 2024
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Yemeni Houthi movement declared war on Israel on October 31, and the Iran-supplied and -funded Houthi missile threat to Israel is destined to become a permanent feature of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,182, February 20, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The United States has reportedly asked Israel to supply Ukraine with its long-retired Hawk missile defense system, despite the fact that the components of these systems are in serious …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #184
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recently concluded six-week-long Second Nagorno-Karabakh War fought by Armenia and Azerbaijan was a milestone in military affairs, as it was the first conflict in which unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) won …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,794, November 1, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Kim Jong-un recently presided over an extraordinary military parade in Pyongyang to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kim dynastyโs control over North Korea. While the parade unveiled …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1607, June 16, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The received wisdom that โmissiles and rockets don’t win wars,โ always a dubious assertion, is now obsolete and demonstrably false. Modern precision-guided missiles have the same combat effectiveness as …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #170
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Operation Shahid Soleimani, the Iranian revenge attack for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, was less spectacular than the Iranian attack on Saudi Arabiaโs oil facilities last September and was apparently controversial …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #169
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning on the emergent Yemen-originating missile threatย corresponds to Iran’s modus operandi of surrounding its foes with missile โrings of fireโ and will enable Tehran to complete …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 776, March 21, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel was the clear victor in the 2014 Gaza War. That Israel’s war aims were achieved by a defensive rather than offensive strategy does not diminish the magnitude of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 662, November 29, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Since the onset of the so-called “Arab Spring” in 2011, there has been a continuous upheaval in Yemen, which has escalated into full scale civil war between the Houthis …
