Israel has quadrupled its air-strike capacity over the past eight years
"By the end of 2014 the Israel Air Force will be able to do in less than 24 hours what it did in three days of fighting during the Second Lebanon War of 2006". IAF commander Maj. General Amir Eshel
View ArticleScramble? Quiet! We are sleeping
Recent incursions of civil and military aircraft into neighboring airspace has highlighted the state of alert maintained by different nations, and raised once again the validity of the huge investments...
View ArticleHigh Noon Sunday!
By Riki Ellison Sunday at high noon out of Vandenberg AFB, California provides a window of opportunity to test and demonstrate the
View ArticleTunnel warfare – a short history
Underground warfare is not new. Since ancient and medical times warfighters have often used subterranean passages, natural or man made, to gain access into enemy fortifications and escape siege. In...
View ArticleIsrael’s campaign directed at Gaza’s tunnel infrastructure
Operation 'Protective Edge' will be remembered as one of the first military operations where a modern army had to face an irregular enemy mostly in the subterranean operational environment. While...
View ArticleIranian analyst: Israeli drone could have exploited serious gap in Iran’s air...
The Israeli drone downed by the Iranian IRGC on August 23 may have exploited a serious gap in Iran's air defense system, an Iranian analyst told Azeri publication Trend.
View ArticleSyrian Jihadists turn against peacekeepers on the Golan
The collapse of the Syrian regime’s military stronghold around Quneitra, the main city in the Syrian Golan height, and border crossing with Israel has caught the United Nations Disengagement Observer...
View ArticleStrategy to defeat ISIS
analysts at the Institute for the Studies of War say, "perhaps as many as 25,000 ground troops in all in Iraq and Syria”. Although in roles very different from those they played in Iraq between 2003...
View ArticleISIS Launches attacks in Baghdad
While its forces are facing growing pressure in the North, ISIS has increased its attacks on Baghdad last week, rippling mortar fires and suicide bombings at several targets in the Iraqi capital, in a...
View ArticleUS should be prepared to meet North Korean KN08 ICBM
The US is concerned that north Korean provocations could start a cycle of action and counteraction, leading to an unintended, uncontrolled escalation. General Curtis Scaparrotti, the commanding general...
View ArticleHow mature is PyongYang’s submarine launched missile program?
North Korea recently conducted a test of an ejection launcher that U.S. intelligence agencies assess is part of Pyongyang’s recently discovered submarine-launched ballistic missile program. Despite...
View ArticleNews analysis: Arab spring reviving ISIS’ Islamic Caliphate
In this first part in a series outlining the violently evolving middle east, this essay written by Defense-Analyst David Eshel covers the evolution of Da'ish (aka ISIS, ISIL) from the collapse of Iraq,...
View ArticleFacing a wave of terror attacks, Egypt is concerned over ISIS precence on its...
As it seems, Egypt is already involved in a “full-fledged war” against Islamist groups. President al-Sisi enhanced his anti-terrorism narrative to enforce brutal crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood...
View ArticleNews Analysis: Fighting ISIS trigger new hope for Kurdish independence
With as many as 30 million people spread across the Middle East, the Kurds claim to be the world’s largest ethnic group without a country. The recent incursion of the Islamic State in Iraq and el-Sham...
View ArticleNews analysis – ISIS and the Kurds – Changing winds in Mid-Eastern power play
in order to fight ISIS effectively the Iraqi kurd Peshmerga militia urgently needs modern weapons, which only the Americans can deliver. Others may help, but may not be enough to maintain a long term...
View ArticleTurkey and the Kurds – Practical coexistence with Turkey
With the situation in Iraq and Syria changed, energy become key to the improving relationship between Ankara and the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Working together, they could also halt, or even...
View ArticleRaytheon bags $2.4 billion to supply Qatar with Patriot air defense systems
Raytheon Company has received a $2.4 billion Foreign Military Sales contract for fire units of the Patriot Air & Missile Defense System for the State of Qatar. The acquisition is part of an Armed...
View ArticleIran tests new drones, air defense missiles during wargames
The Iranian air defense command has introduced a third generation evolution of the Hawk missile, locally designated ‘Shalamcheh’, operated along with new radar and ELINT systems. The Iranian Army has...
View ArticleEgypt concerned over growing Da’ish (ISIS) presence on its borders (Part II)
Libya and its ongoing battle between Islamists and non-Islamist forces presents a nearby breeding ground for ISIS. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is facing one of his biggest foreign policy...
View ArticleIslamic State’s Activity spreads into the Far East
As the Islamic State continues its armed campaign in Iraq and Syria, its ideology is drawing fans and fighters from as far as Southern Asia and China. While the attack in Australia drew the world...
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