אל"מ (מיל') פרופ' גבי סיבוני

A conceptual map illustrating a locked connection between the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb Strait, symbolizing control over maritime trade routes and geopolitical tension involving Iran and Yemen.

Maritime Chokepoints and the Vulnerability of Global Trade

20/10/2026 אין תגובות

The crises in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb show how uncertainty alone can undermine shipping companies’ and insurers’ confidence in freedom of navigation. Israel’s response must combine maritime defense and intelligence with insurance policy, regional diplomacy, infrastructure planning, and efforts to restore that confidence

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Israel Needs an Operational Command for Soft Warfare

07/10/2026 אין תגובות

Israel’s adversaries increasingly use funding, law, academia, media, and digital influence to restrict its freedom of action. Meeting the threat requires a permanent operational body that can integrate intelligence, technology, legal tools, diplomacy, and influence operations.

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Community Defense as the Foundation of Homeland Defense

29/09/2026 אין תגובות

Israel’s homeland defense doctrine must give communities, neighborhoods, and local authorities the capacity to respond immediately to infiltration, terrorism, civil unrest, and nationalist crime, backed by a large territorial National Guard capable of rapid reinforcement

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The Drone Threat: The Security Gap in Israel’s Open Skies

22/09/2026 אין תגובות

Drones can shift rapidly from civilian tools to weapons of crime, terrorism, and war. Israel needs a multidisciplinary response combining legislation, clearly defined powers, and technology. Its success in identifying and stopping that shift will determine whether it can maintain normal civilian life while keeping its skies open

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Neutralizing the Iranian Threat: Why Regime Change Must Be the End State

14/09/2026 אין תגובות

Military strikes can damage Iran’s nuclear program, missiles, and proxy network, but they cannot eliminate the system that reproduces them. Israel should therefore make regime change the strategic end state of any renewed campaign

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The Sunni Axis: A New Ring of Fire Around Israel?

31/08/2026 אין תגובות

A developing alignment among Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia is not a military coalition directed against Israel. But its combination of military power, nuclear capability, financial resources, religious influence, and competition over regional trade routes could evolve into a framework constraining Israel

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A serpentine mountain road descends through arid desert hills toward a turquoise reservoir behind a dam in central Jordan. The rugged canyon landscape stretches under a hazy sky.

Security Through Economics: Regional Infrastructure as a Lever for Stability

26/08/2026 אין תגובות

Long-term security depends not only on preventing threats but also on shaping shared interests. Economics, infrastructure, and the environment should become integral parts of Israel’s security architecture

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Jordan’s Fragile Stability and Israel’s Eastern Front

19/08/2026 אין תגובות

Economic strain, domestic political pressures, and Iranian penetration are increasing the risks along Israel’s longest border. Israel must prepare for potential instability by strengthening its defenses, intelligence capabilities, and operational readiness along the eastern frontier

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The Future Battlefield Is Here

10/08/2026 אין תגובות

The future battlefield will be defined by inexpensive systems deployed at scale, multidomain swarms, artificial intelligence that analyzes information and supports or makes decisions, and a widening gap between technological capability and the capacity of law and ethics to regulate technology. By combining mass, tempo, redundancy, autonomy, and networking, a swarm can generate effects that depend not on any individual platform but on the collective behavior of the system. In an era when machines can see, calculate, and strike faster than humans, stronger human control is required—not as a legal ornament, but as an operational and ethical restraint.

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Victory or Equality? Women in the IDF Maneuvering Forces

05/08/2026 אין תגובות

Victory must remain the measure of every IDF policy. Women’s service should be expanded where it strengthens operational effectiveness, but unrestricted integration into the maneuvering forces risks higher injury and attrition, weaker unit cohesion, and reduced Religious Zionist recruitment.

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The Evolution of Terrorism in Areas Under the Mandate of Peacekeeping Forces

04/08/2026 אין תגובות

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BERLIN - JUNE 06, 2024: The loitering munition of IAI Harop. ILA Berlin Air Show 2024.

Israel’s Path to Armaments Independence

27/07/2026 אין תגובות

Israel has always sought to defend itself by itself, yet it remains dependent on foreign arms and military support. The War of Redemption exposed the operational and strategic costs of that dependence and the need to reduce it

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