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Dr. Yagil Henkin

Dr. Henkin is a military historian, specializing in urban warfare, counterinsurgency, irregular warfare, and Israeli military history. He teaches military history at the IDF Command and Staff College, and is a reservist with the IDF history department. He is the author of Either We Win or We Perish: A History of the First Chechen War, 1994-1996 (Hebrew, 2007); The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse (2015); and the forthcoming Like Fish in the Bush: Rhodesia at War, 1965-1980 (Hebrew, 2017). He also published Uneasy Red, a guide to the Omaha Beach battle site in Normandy (2014), and co-authored (with Jaacob Saar) the Israel National Trail Guide (3rd Edition, 2016).

Recent publications

Israel Needs an Operational Command for Soft Warfare

Israel’s adversaries increasingly use funding, law, academia, media, and digital influence to restrict its freedom...

The Return of the “Camp of Stability”?

Saudi Arabia’s difficulties in Yemen have exposed the limits of its partnership with Turkey and...

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