Warfare

Is 'Purity of Arms' holding the IDF back? Inside Israel’s battle over military ethics

Fighters are expected to avoid harming noncombatants, including civilians, prisoners, and the defenseless, as much as possible, and to maintain their humanity even in the midst of combat.

IDF LEAFLET warns against violence, on a Palestinian car in Hebron, Nov. 2025.
Hezbollah members salute and raise the group's yellow flags during a funeral.

Hezbollah shifts to guerrilla warfare, drone strikes as terror group prepares for prolonged war

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky waits to welcome Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 4, 2025.

Putin’s and Iran’s Caspian Sea plans have backfired. Here’s how – opinion

Anduril Industries, Inc. signage is displayed above the company's booth at Special Operations Forces (SOF) Week at the Tampa Convention Center on May 19, 2026 in Tampa, Florida.

How Anduril's new 'Thunder system' could reshape the future of drone warfare - analysis


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

Senate passes bill sanctioning Hamas, Hezbollah 'human shields' practice

The legislation, titled the STOP Using Human Shields Act, was authored and supported by Republican and Democrats.

Palestinian students supporting Hamas stand next to mock Hamas rockets during a rally celebrating their winning of the student council election at Birzeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 23, 2015.

Russian, U.S. officers to gather in Israel for war wounded panel

The October conference will be the first of its kind in Israel.

Wounded children in a hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria

Yom Kippur War: IDF chief ignored pre-warning about Egyptian artillery

“Everyone one of the forts on the [Suez] Canal, as far as potential from the enemy, could be hit easily with 5,000 shells per hour.”

Then-prime minister Golda Meir (R) accompanied by then-defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with Israeli soldiers at a base on the Golan Heights after intense fighting during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Yom Kippur War: IDF chief ignored pre-warning about Egyptian artilery

“Everyone one of the forts on the [Suez] Canal, as far as potential from the enemy, could be hit easily with 5,000 shells per hour.”

Then-prime minister Golda Meir (R) accompanied by then-defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with Israeli soldiers at a base on the Golan Heights after intense fighting during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

‘New-generation warfare’ and the future of state security

“I know not with what weapon World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” – Albert Einstein

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