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Jan 17, 2025 | 
msn.com | Dov S. Zakheim
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed desire to acquire Greenland, by force if necessary, has created much ado in Denmark, Greenland and NATO Europe. Both Denmark, which provides for Greenland’s defense, and Greenland’s political leadership oppose the idea of the island being ceded to the U.S. But an invasion of Greenland is not necessarily on the cards.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Dov S. Zakheim
President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed desire to acquire Greenland, by force if necessary, has created much ado in Denmark, Greenland and NATO Europe. Both Denmark, which provides for Greenland’s defense, and Greenland’s political leadership oppose the idea of the island being ceded to the U.S. But an invasion of Greenland is not necessarily on the cards.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Commission for the Evaluation of the Defense Establishment Budget and the Balance of Power released a report addressing the country’s future strategy, military modernization, industrial expansion and defense spending. The commission, led by Prof.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
Skip to content Just as 2024 came to a close, the Pentagon announced a new $2.47 billion military aid package for Ukraine.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
Several recent commentators have pointed out that President-elect Donald Trump has designated Steve Feinberg for the position of deputy secretary of Defense to compensate for Pete Hegseth’s lack of managerial experience. Feinberg certainly does bring considerable experience to the position for which Trump has named him. He is co-chairman of Cerberus Capital, which has invested in defense firms, most notably Dyncorp, which it acquired in 2010 and sold a decade later.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
Earlier this week, two Russian Tupolev TU-95 (“Bear”) strategic nuclear bombers flew over the Bering and Chuki Seas near the Alaska coastline. The Russian Defense Ministry disingenuously described their activity as “a scheduled flight over neutral waters.”The Bear is an ancient bomber, originally put into use seven decades ago, and is hardly a real threat to the U.S. — or, for that matter, to Canada.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
As President-elect Donald Trump and his team prepare to take office, a major debate is taking place regarding the degree to which the U.S. should maintain its nearly 80-year military presence in Europe. Many experts contend that the U.S. should focus primarily on deterring and, if necessary, defeating China in an East Asian conflict. The Europeans, they argue, should look after their own defenses, having sheltered for far too long under America’s defense umbrella.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, thousands of Syrian refugees began to flood into neighboring Jordan. By the end of the following year, the number of refugees had reached 150,000; a year later, it was one-half million. There are currently at least 1 million Syrian refugees in Jordan. A senior Jordanian military official told me shortly after the start of the Syrian uprising that most of the refugees were poor and uneducated, creating a major economic burden on his country.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Dov S. Zakheim
President Joe Biden and his top negotiator, Amos Hochstein, deserve considerable credit for bringing about a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. The terror group had no reason to launch a new conflict with Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, but clearly did so at Tehran’s behest. Indeed, when the Hamas leadership initially approached the late Hassan Nasrallah in an effort to get Hezbollah to agree to a coordinated attack on Israel, the Hezbollah leader demurred.
