Recent test successes for Israel's Iron Dome defense system may have helped eliminate concerns about system’s ability to respond to short-range rocket threats, IDF leadership has indicated that ground operations would be still be necessary in the face of a large barrage of rockets. At the same time, an article by JINSA Research Associate Jacob Levkowicz reports, analysts continue to claim that the system's high cost may well prevent it from ever entering serial production.

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.

The Conference on Emerging Security Issues covered some of the most critical problems confronting the Obama Administration. Download the proceedings by clicking the link below.

The full proceedings from JINSA's March 26th Conference on Emerging Security Issues are now available. The conference grappled with issues concerning Turkey's future role as an ally of the West, worrisome developments in Mexico and the continued utility of an independent Palestinian state.

On January 28, a group of JINSA members took advantage of the opportunity to tour the Sector and meet the men and women who serve the South Florida community, and the nation as a whole.

JINSA's Senior Director for Security Policy Shoshana Bryen wrote in the Baltimore Jewish Times, October 24, 2008, that there are at least two problems with the increasing calls for the United States to engage Iran.

As violence continues to decline in Iraq, regional elections are set for January and disparate political and ethnic forces move closer to political reconciliation, the unfinished Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States looms increasingly large.

A delegation of JINSA officers and members got the unique opportunity to get an up-close look at the Naval Special Warfare Groups (NSWG) based at the Naval Amphibious Base at Little Creek, Virginia in November 2007.

As gasoline in America has remained relatively inexpensive at the pump, the cost of protecting the sources of that energy supply has increasingly risen in terms of defending resources often located in steadily deteriorating regions and amidst the growing forces of criminality and religious radicalism.

More than four years after the 2003 invasion, a substantial portion of the U.S. military remains in Iraq, with worn-out equipment and weaponry and personnel exhausted by frequent tours of duty and insufficient time at home between deployments. Concerned observers are increasingly asking: "Is America entering into another phase of the 'Hollow Army', like that of the post-Vietnam era? Has the military become a broken force?"