Understanding Israel's battlefields (& U.S. involvement) - with Dr. Fred Kagan

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Next week we will release the new book by Saul Singer and me: "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World", which you can order now at: www.amazon.com/Genius-Israel-Small-Nation-Teach/dp/1982115769/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LKV3ZLWLBOL1&keywords=dan+senor&qid=1694402205&sprefix=dan+senor%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1 OR www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-genius-of-israel-dan-senor/1143499668 The speech that I reference in today's episode -- in which I discuss the resilience of Israelis in this moment -- can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WygtNbwf-tk By the time you listen to this episode, we may be witnessing escalation on Israel’s Northern border. Certainly there’s a highly anticipated address by Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah. This will be his first major address since the October 7 War began. If there is major escalation, we will be dropping an emergency episode with Dr. Matthew Levitt, an expert on Hezbollah who was on this podcast last week. Today’s guest is Dr. Fred Kagan, an expert in understanding war theaters – as he tries to help us understand the various battlefields in which Israel is currently fighting or might be fighting in the future. Fred is a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He spent meaningful time in the Middle East informally advising US military commanders. You can find more of Fred’s work at: The Critical Threats Project – https://www.criticalthreats.org/ Institute for the Study of War – https://understandingwar.org/

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0:00.0	It's 11 PM in New York City on Thursday, November 2nd.
0:07.0	It's 11 PM in New York City on Thursday, November 2nd. It's 5 a.m. in Israel on Friday, November 3rd,
0:19.8	as Israelis get ready to start their day. That day is day 28 of the war. By the time
0:27.7	you listen to this episode we may be witnessing major escalation on Israel's northern border.
0:34.4	Certainly there's a highly anticipated address by Hassan Nasrala,
0:38.9	the head of Hezbollah.
0:40.2	This would be his first major address since the October 7th War began.
0:46.0	We'll be monitoring events closely, and if there is a major escalation, we will drop an emergency episode with Dr. Matthew Leavitt from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who we had on a few days ago to give us a tutorial on the history of Hezbollah.
1:02.0	Before we get into an update on on the history of Hezbollah.
1:03.0	Before we get into an update on other events in Israel, one housekeeping note in just a few days next Tuesday.
1:10.0	My and Saul Singer's next book, The Genius of Israel, The Surprising Resilience of
1:17.2	a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World, will be published.
1:22.1	It's a book about Israeli Res, the same resilience we are seeing
1:25.8	and are about to see across Israeli society, hareidi, secular, Jews from the east and Jews
1:31.0	from the west. Really just about every segment of Israeli society.
1:36.7	I gave a speech about this moment in Israeli society on Sunday at the Jewish Leadership
1:42.0	Conference here in New York City. I'll provide a
1:43.9	link to that speech in the show notes. We hope you'll order the book this week
1:47.8	it would mean a lot to us. I'm sending the proceeds to an organization in
1:51.7	Israel working on the rebuild.
1:55.4	And quite a rebuild it will be working to help the hundreds of thousands of evacuees from
1:59.7	the south and the north that will need to begin anew.
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