Yoni Tobin

1 week ago | jinsa.org | Ari Cicurel |Yoni Tobin

| Share: The October 7 attack and its aftermath revealed significant shortcomings in Israel’s border security doctrine and its implementation. Israel’s assumptions about the magnitude and nature of threats on its borders proved false, and, as a result, its operational concept and plans to protect against those threats failed.

3 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | Michael Connor |Yoni Tobin

Undersea fiber-optic cables serve as not only the economic and communications backbone of much of the civilian world, but for military operations as well. And while recent incidents in which cables have been cut — accidentally or not — have mostly been confined to European and Asian waters, threats to undersea cables will inevitably expand to the Middle East, too — urgently requiring more US action to protect them.

1 month ago | jinsa.org | Yoni Tobin |Behnam Ben Taleblu

The U.S. is pounding Houthi drone experts and infrastructure as well as command-and-control nodes across Yemen at a pace previously unseen. Why it matters: The rebel group has for months held the Red Sea and its surroundings hostage, despite international firepower levied against it. Key to its stranglehold are unmanned, explosive-strapped vehicles in the air and on the sea.

1 month ago | jinsa.org | Yoni Tobin |Eric Bazail-Eimil

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is dead. And it’s unclear how international mediators can get both sides back to the negotiating table. Hamas launched rockets against Tel Aviv today, the first cross-border attack from the militant group since Israeli airstrikes began earlier this week. An Israeli ground offensive that started Wednesday has seen the Israel Defense Forces take swaths of territory and establish buffer zones across the enclave.

1 month ago | jinsa.org | Yoni Tobin |Eric Bazail-Eimil

The U.S. has launched over 400 percent more strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebel group in March 2025 than in the previous three months, according to an analysis by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, a hawkish Washington think tank. The U.S. military has launched 89 strikes against the group since Saturday — the most since the Biden administration first started a campaign against the Iran-backed group in February 2024.