Ran Baratz teaches military history and strategy in the IDF’s War Colleges. In 2016-2017 he served as the prime minister’s public diplomacy director. He is also the founding editor of the Hebrew-language website Mida, and the managing director of the Israeli NGO El Haprat. He writes a weekly column in Makor Rishon.
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First, I want to thank the respondents for their replies to my essay on the postmodern military. I have learned from all of them, both here and in their other writings. I believe we largely agree on t...
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After fifteen months of war, and brilliant Israeli operations, Hamas and Hizballah have managed to avoid total defeat, and the IDF has not yet managed to secure total victory.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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In “ Does America Still Have What It Takes ?,” Charles Murray soberly registers the decline of certain central cultural characteristics that historically have sustained America’s success as a global...
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Hillel Halkin’s Letters to an American Jewish Friend first came into my hands serendipitously. I knew of its existence in English but was unaware of a Hebrew translation. Then, on one of our regular...
