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Hudson in 5
Rather than kinetically destroying Tehran’s defensive infrastructure, Israel cognitively bypassed it. Zineb Riboua explains how Operation Rising Lion leveraged the art of deception in a new Hudson policy memo.
Iran knew that its best tool to restrain Israel was American policy, argued Michael Doran. On Honestly with Bari Weiss, he explained how Israel’s decapitation strike against Iran disrupted Tehran’s strategy and weakened the regime.
“Clearly the United States understood what was happening,” said Rebeccah Heinrichs following Israel’s covert operation against Iran. On CNN, she emphasized the strategic implications of Israel’s strike and the setback it poses to Iran’s nuclear program.
In The Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead reflects on his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just before Israel’s strikes began. Mead explains how, in a matter of days, Netanyahu pivoted from a political low into a bold offensive that “will define his place in history.”
Israel’s operation should serve as a wake-up call for US policymakers, writes Michael Sobolik. In The Wall Street Journal, he warns that Beijing may already have kill switches to sabotage critical technology in the US, and that Washington should ban Chinese Communist Party–controlled technology in US critical infrastructure to combat this threat.
Before you go . . .
In a new policy memo, William Schneider lays out the novel nuclear delivery systems Russia has developed and explains how Moscow’s coercive threats have constrained US policy.
