Louis René Beres
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....
Kafka and Israel: A parable for Jewish survival
“Many people prowl round Mount Sinai. Their speech is blurred, either they are garrulous or they shout or they are taciturn. But none of them comes straight down a broad, newly made, smooth road that does...
A just war against criminal terror
Each state is expected to aid and enforce the law of nations, as part of the common law, by inflicting an adequate punishment upon offenders against that universal law.” Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the...
Israel Must Confront the Jihadist Desire for Immortality
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”
Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s security policy decision-makers must take into account the desire of Israel’s terrorist adversaries to achieve immortality through violence. Israel must be...
Beyond Current Chaos: The Escalating Risks of Nuclear War
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer citing to Bahgavad Gita at first atomic test on July 16, 1945
A first thought dawns. Nuclear weapons are unique in the history of warfare....
Israel, War and International Law: Jewish Survival in an Age of Jihadist Terror.
All people.... who dare not defend themselves when they know they are in the right, who submit to punishment not because of what they have done but because of who they are, are already dead...
Facing Trump II: America’s Urgent Obligation to Rethink Nuclear Command Authority
“The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the horrible news.”
Berthold Brecht
An Existential Task
Until the end of his presidency – and even after his open complicity in subverting the United States Constitution...
Unpacking What Motivates Jihadist Movements Like Hamas
Even in our “advanced” age of artificial intelligence, Plato continues to provide lessons for us. The ancient Greek philosopher argues famously in The Republic that politics and statecraft are only a reflection of what is real....