Louis René Beres
Navigating Chaos: Israel, Nuclear Ambiguity and the “Samson Option”
Israel’s ship of state, facing rough seas, is at high risk and requires clearer rules of navigation. During this period of deep complexity, Israel will need to clarify its strategic direction. The terrorists of...
Nuclear War with Iran: Israel’s science-based options
“I learn a science from the soul’s aggressions.” - St. John Perse
The evidence is compelling.
In various parts of the world, including the Middle East, a nuclear war is increasingly plausible. Still, identifying meaningful time...
The Order of Chaos: Israel Should Clarify Its Nuclear Doctrine and Strategy
HAMM: “What’s happening, what’s happening?
CLOV: “Something is taking its course.”
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Abstract: Though seemingly paradoxical, even chaos can exhibit a determinable order or “course.” Understood in terms of Israel’s survival in the chaotic Middle...
For Israel, a Two-State Solution Would Be a ‘Final Solution’
The evidence is clear. The true aim of all authoritative Palestinian leaderships is not a sovereign and independent state of Palestine – a diplomatic option these leaderships have willfully rejected again and again – ...
Dangerously Ignored Intersections: Palestinian Statehood and Regional Nuclear War
When Israel completes its obligatory counter-terrorism war in Gaza, the issue of Palestinian statehood will insistently be raised. This perilous resurrection is foreseeable even though any de facto reward for Hamas criminality would be unconscionable. Still,...
Belief, belonging and immortality: true causes of Hamas terror
To meaningfully understand what lies behind Iran-supported Hamas terrorism against Israel, we can learn more from the psychologists and anthropologists than the pundits and politicos. Inter-penetrating problems of religion, war and terror most deeply...
A longer Gaza conflict’s implications for nuclear war with Iran
Introduction: In the closing days of 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised his nation that Operation Swords of Iron would take additional months to complete. During this period of extended Israeli involvement with counter-terrorism...
An Israel-Iran Nuclear War: What The World Could Expect
“I learn a science from the soul’s aggressions.”
St. John Perse
In parts of the world, a nuclear war is increasingly plausible. Nonetheless, defining meaningful time frames for such a conflict would be problematic, and determining...
Existential Risks to Israel: “Escalation Dominance” and Nuclear War
An end to the Israel-Hamas Gaza War could ultimately involve a threat or operational use of nuclear weapons. More precisely, after this conflict, even a pre-nuclear Iran could elicit an Israeli nuclear warning or...
Managing Palestinian Terror by Demilitarization: False Hopes of a Two-State Solution
“Men as a rule wittingly believe what they want to believe.”
Julius Caesar, The Gallic War
In the midst of an unpredictable Gaza War, even well-intentioned calls for a “two-state solution” are sorely misplaced and cumulatively lethal....