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.

Much has been made of Israel's so-called "disproportionate" response to Hamas rocket fire against Israeli civilians. However, proportionality as a doctrine in international law does not say that firepower returned has to be equal to firepower taken, and does not require that casualties be equal on both sides, concludes a report by JINSA's Senior Director for Security Policy Shoshana Bryen.

Israel has great experience with guerrilla/terrorist forces on its borders with Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. A report by JINSA's Senior Director for Security Policy Shoshana Bryen assesses Israel's overall security operations through the prism of the ongoing Gaza War and the lessons of Israel's experience in the West Bank and Lebanon.

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 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.

Andrew Whitehead spoke to JINSA leaders at the Spring 2007 Board Meeting about his legal victory over the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after the group filed a lawsuit to shut down his Anti-CAIR website. Whitehead used the website to publish the ugly truth behind CAIR's foreign funding and its leadership's support for terrorists and radical, anti-American causes.

Former Bangladeshi political prisoner Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury urges the United States to pay close attention to the rising tide of Islamist extremism in moderate Muslim countries if it is to prevent the radicalization of their populations.

From a Chinese sub slipping within five miles of a U.S. aircraft carrier to the pride of the Israeli fleet being struck by an Iranian anti-ship missile launched by Hezbollah, events in 2006 may compel needed attention to fleet protection, especially as advanced non-nuclear submarines begin to enter Middle East and Asian fleets.