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By Itamar Rabinovich The tide is changing in the Syrian civil war. Bashar al-Assad and his regime are gaining momentum, the opposition is weakening, and...

Yoram Hacohen Three interesting processes are underway as a direct result of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of the access by US security services...

 By Guy-Philippe Goldstein INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program Though cyberspace is a domain of strategic importance, cyber weapons have not yet been associated with publicly well-enunciated...

  Global Cyber Review     Israel Israel under constant threat of cyber-attack     Kaspersky Lab has revealed that in the first quarter of 2013, Israel identified almost a million network...

By Yiftah S. Shapir INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program Israel has been under rocket attack for many years. Particularly memorable are the shelling of Galilee panhandle...

By Cohen, Daniel and Rotbart, Aviv INSS – CYBER Warfare Program  The increasing use of cyber weapons is creating the inevitable situation in which sophisticated versions of cyber...

In light of the complex evolving predicament facing Hezbollah, the alleged discovery of yet another infiltration would probably be branded by the organization as...

USA U.S: Cooperation with India on cyber security issues The United States started to build a strong partnership with India on cyber security issues....

By Liran Antebi A new INSS article presents the challenges posed by unmanned tools and systems, which play an increasingly large role in the modern...

February 15th, 2014 Israel Israel - A growing cyber nation In the last few years, the number of Israeli companies involved in the industry has ballooned from...

By Lior Tabansky INSS – Cyber Warfare Program . Introduction A functioning modern society depends on a complex tapestry of infrastructures: energy, communications, transportation, food, and many others....

There are some big names in the cyber-warfare world: the United States, obviously, as well as Israel, Russia, China, and a few others. In...

By Emily B. Landau, Shimon Stein* When Shultz, Perry, Kissinger, and Nunn published their op-eds on a world free of nuclear weapons in 2007 and 2008,...

If we think of sensitive, complex cities in the modern Middle East that are highly volatile, reflect sectorial tensions, and are home to serious...

Reuven Paz The struggle against the Islamic State (IS) organization led by the United States and its allies appears thus far to be something of...

By Brig. Gen. (ret.) Moshe (“Chico”) Tamir INSS - Military and Strategic Affairs Program This essay attempts to present operational perspectives on conducting warfare in densely...

Like the leaders of other Western countries targeted by Islamist terrorists, French President François Hollande has insisted that the recent attacks in Paris are...

By James A. Lewis INSS – Cyber Warfare Program Revelations about Stuxnet and Flame have provoked a chorus of dire warnings on the dangers of cyber...

Israel Israeli Government invests in the next generation of cyber experts The Israeli government has decided to invest approximately 300m ILS to improve research and development...

By Benjamin S. Lambeth INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program Operation Change of Direction, the code name given to Israel’s war against Hizbollah in Lebanon...

Ethnic, political, and religious rifts make Yemen one of the most complex arenas in the Middle East, even more so following the eruption of...