Warfare

Rafael subsidiary strikes deal with four NATO countries for Trophy APS

“In the coming years, APS will be increasingly embedded as a standard requirement across armored fleets...and treated as an essential element of modern land warfare"

EuroTrophy GmbH and KNDS Deutschland
Israeli army soldier holding a mounted machine gun in front of destroyed buildings in the vicinity of the Jordanian Field Hospital in Gaza City.

Gaza reveals future of urban combat western armies aren't prepared for - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to international media on the Gaza war, in Jerusalem, August 10, 2025

What’s in a name? A lot: Why Israel must reframe hasbara as informational warfare - opinion

A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) successfully launches from the flight deck of the Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) while operating in the Arabian Gulf, Dec. 16.

US Navy launches first one-way attack drone from ship amid growing threats


After meeting between Aliyev and Pashinyan in Vienna: Peace or war?

Azerbaijan and Armenia try to settle their ongoing conflict.

SERVICEMEN OF the army of Nagorno-Karabakh rest at their positions near the village of Mataghis, yesterday.

Can Israeli intelligence be used to avoid unnecessary wars? - analysis

Academia may be helping depoliticize spy agencies.

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Obstacles to Israel’s strategic objectives

Main insights from the INSS 12th annual international conference

F-35 warplanes doing a flyover in 2018 in Israel.

Islamic scholar says fighting Jews in Israel is a religious mandate

He said that according to religious ruling, all of Israel is “a battlefield between us and the Jews."

Islamic scholar claims religious duty to fight Jews.

Israel might expand covert war against Iran beyond Syria in coming year

A reduction has noted in weapons shipments, funds to Iran’s Syria project

Israeli soldiers stand atop tanks overlooking the border between Israel and Syria

Soldiers speak: IDF tank crew on the role they play in protecting Israel

A lone soldier from Los Angeles, a tank gunner and more speak out about their dedication to protecting the Jewish state in both times of peace and times of war.

Soldiers from the IDF 401th Armored Brigade in training

Balancing Act

Syria barely exists as a state, but Russia is keen to maintain calm there to help Assad keep control, while Iran, already overstretched, does not seem keen on an all-out confrontation with Israel.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu chats with Israeli soldiers at a military outpost during a visit to Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights overlooking the Israel-Syria border in 2015.

The resurfacing of European colonialism

Decolonialism was forced on Europe without preparation. As a result, the continent never went through a process of mental decolonization. Now, is Europe increasingly behaving in neocolonialist ways?

AN OLD map presents Europe in the shape of a queen holding scepter and orb, with Portugal as her crown, Spain as her face, France as her belowthe- neck area, lower Germany and Denmark as her left arm, Italy as her right arm (with Sicily as orb), and the rest of central and eastern Europe as the dres

New Chief of General Staff Aviv Kochavi - a different breed

Aviv Kochavi, a product and shaper of postmodern warfare, will be the first IDF Chief of General Staff to have never participated in a conventional war.

Outgoing Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot sits next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin

Technology and conventional warfare merge under Israeli eyes

The challenge of future war is not that everything becomes less personal, but how to get the soldiers to want to use all the gadgets at their disposal effectively.

ONE OF CONTROP Precision Technologies’ electro-optical products. What all of this technology is doing is making it possible to locate targets more easily and defend borders from threats