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Today is January 15th, 20206, and my guest is Andrew Fox.

I usually give our guests a title like author or journalist or historian.

Andrew's a little different.

His life experiences are not easily captured in a single word or phrase.

So I'm going to give you a piece of his bio.

He served in the British Army from 2005 to 2021.

He completed three tours in Afghanistan, including one attached to the U.S. Army Special Forces.

He served in the Parachute Regiment and Special Forces Support Group with additional tours in Bosnia and the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

After his active service, he spent three years as a senior lecture in the War Studies and behavioral science departments at the Royal Military Academy in Sanhurst in the UK. He specializes in defense, the Middle East,

and disinformation, and he is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Recently, over the

last months and year plus, he's spent a great deal of time here in Israel examining the Israel Defense Force, the IDF, in Gaza.

This is his second appearance on Econ Talk.

He was last year in September of 2024, where we talked about how the war was going.

I thought it might be useful to get his views a year later and discuss his recent report for the Henry Jackson Society, which we

will link to tactical lessons from Gaza.

Andrew, welcome back to Econ Talk.

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