Dr. Bruce Hoffman Addressed the JINSA Policy Forum on March 2, 2010. He discussed the changing nature of the terror threat with particular emphasis on Al Qaeda and its offshoots. The JINSA Policy Forum features policy experts to provide information about the importance of an effective U.S. defense capability and a robust national security policy in safeguarding vital American interests.

A JINSA delegation in Israel last week participated in two programs designed to advance the discussion of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza and other non-conventional wars of this decade beyond a description of the adversaries of the West and into the means of defeating them.

Prof. Martin Sherman, the 2009-2010 Hebrew Union College/University of Southern California Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor of Security Studies and International Policy, writing in the latest JINSA Global Briefing, analyzes the massive and enduring application of a double standard toward Israel with regard to alleged human rights abuses. Prof. Sherman compares Israeli actions in the war against Hamas with the 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslav forces.

In the wake of President Barak Obama's China trip this past November and the U.S.-China joint statement that resulted, many in Taiwan are apprehensive about Taiwan-U.S. ties and Taiwan's security, and for good reason, claims Dr. Parris Chang, writing in the latest JINSA Global Briefing. Chang is CEO of the Taiwan Institute for Political Economic and Strategic Studies.

Jim Colbert, JINSA's Communications Director, was a direct witness to the historic elections in Honduras that took place Nov. 29. Colbert served alongside international observers that came to Honduras from 31 other countries. Here is his story of those elections and how Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez's attempts to subvert Honduran democracy were thwarted.

The members of the ad hoc Washington Observers Group that included JINSA Communications Director Jim Colbert issued the following statement on the National Elections in Honduras, Sunday November 29, 2009.

China has been developing military and trade relationships in the Middle East that will come at the expense of American interests. In this most recent Global Briefing, Dr. Parris Chang, President of the Taiwan Institute for Political Economic and Strategic Studies, details Beijing's evolving policy toward the Middle East.

WASHINGTON--The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs today strongly questioned the appointment of John Limbert to be Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State for Iran.

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs today urged the State Department to support democracy in Honduras by not designating former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's removal from office a military coup.

Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp, CBE, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan in 2003, explains what the British should make of their rising casualties in Afghanistan in the latest JINSA Global Briefing.