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Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres
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Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is the author of many books, monographs, and scholarly articles dealing with various legal and military aspects of  nuclear strategy. In Israel, he was Chair of Project Daniel (PM Sharon, 2003). Over the past years, he has published extensively on nuclear warfare issues in the Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); Yale Global Online (Yale University); JURIST; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; The Atlantic; The Washington Times; US News & World Report; Special Warfare (Pentagon); Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College (Pentagon); The New York Times; The Hill; The Jerusalem Post; and Oxford University Press. His twelfth book,  published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield, is titled: Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy.

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. Credit: Screenshot.

Truth vs. Slogan in World Law: Disclosing Vital Differences

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"The martyrs are our children and they are our families. They honor us...." (Mahmoud Abbas, PA President, Speech to PLO Central Council, January 14, 2018) Judging from recent comments by Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president,...

“Simple,” But “Still Difficult” – Improving the Underpinnings of Israel’s Strategic Future

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Special to JewishWebSight "Everything is very simple in war,  but the simplest thing is still difficult." Carl von Clausewitz, On War Although an apparent paradox, Carl von Clausewitz's classic juxtaposition of simplicity and difficulty is actually quite...

Improving Israeli Military Strategy Through Avant Garde Analysis

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In strategic studies, just as in art, music, or literature, avant garde means an imaginative willingness to take conceptual leaps. There are several ways in which Israeli strategic studies could benefit from the creativity...

Iran, Israel and Anticipatory Self-Defense: Applying Legal Standards

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In the final analysis, of course, any Israeli judgments on launching a defensive first strike against Iran must be based upon entirely operational considerations. This means, inter alia, that even if certain appropriately supportive criteria could...

Surviving Donald Trump: Israel’s Strategic Options

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While Israel has always been determinedly self-reliant on core matters of national security, this posture needs to become even more explicit in the disjointed "Trump Era." In correctly acknowledging the unpredictability and possible incoherence...

Repairing the World at its Source

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In the Introduction to his eccentric but still magisterial The Decline of the West (1918), Oswald Spengler acknowledges the inspirational “philosophy of Goethe.” More precisely, he thanks this most seminal of classical thinkers for what today...
President Donald Trump. Credit: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Impeaching the President: Identifying Deeper Jurisprudential Foundations for Lawful Removal

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"Reluctantly, I have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to U.S. national security." General (USA/ret.) Barry R. McCaffrey, March 18, 2018 "The safety of the People Shall be the highest law." Cicero, The Laws ****** In plausible...

Twin perils for Israel: Iranian nuclear weapons and “Palestine”

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"I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes, Discourse on Method Although difficult to calibrate or measure, Iranian nuclearization and Palestinian statehood  are likely progressing at roughly the same pace. To be sure, this coincident...
The White House - Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Trump and Putin: What’s Really Going On?

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"I like chaos." — United States President Donald Trump, March 4, 2018 Credo quia absurdum. "I believe because it is absurd." In the very best case scenario, President Donald Trump is "merely" incompetent, fundamentally incapable of meeting...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 2018 AIPAC policy conference. Credit: AIPAC.

Looking Beyond Power Politics: A Longer Term Israeli & Global Imperative

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For many years, I have been lecturing and publishing widely about Israel's nuclear strategy. By definition, of course, much of this work has been irremediably speculative; hence, it's derivative policy prescriptions have had to...