[SmallWarsJournal] Abstract: Drones and multi-domain sensors make the modern battlefield transparent, rendering traditional efforts to hide from enemy detection insufficient. To increase survivability and regain the tactical initiative, the United States Army must institutionalize and train small-unit deception tactics. By adopting a formal framework and empowering young leaders to innovate, the Army can mitigate critical vulnerabilities associated with persistent enemy observation.
INTRODUCTION: A WARNING FROM THE NEAR PAST
Between 2014 and 2022, a collection of articles from defense thinkers offered urgent warnings: the proliferation of cheap, commercially available drones would fundamentally change warfare. However, these arguments were often confined to professional forums and did not translate into widespread institutional change; the broader U.S. Army certainly did not fully internalize this message. As a result, the Army found itself scrambling to adapt when the drone-saturated reality of the Ukraine war arrived. The Army is now paying the price for failing to act on these early warnings.
The Army is at a similar inflection point today with tactical deception. If the Army ignores its rising importance, it risks playing catch up in a decade when it is forced to learn these lessons in blood. While the Army has long recognized the value of deception at operational and strategic levels, it remains an ad-hoc skill at the small unit level, largely untaught in our schools and unrecorded in our doctrine. The proliferation of multi-domain sensors has made the battlefield transparent. In this new reality, simply trying to hide better isn’t enough. Instead, we must proactively manage what the enemy sees and turn their tools to identify us into a critical vulnerability through disciplined and institutionalized small-unit deception.
CHALLENGES OF A TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD
The Army must now operate under the assumption that its ground units are always under observation. The modern battlespace is a web of layered sensors; our near-peer competitors have demonstrated a sophisticated capability to detect any electronic emission, triangulate its position, and immediately cue indirect fires. This electronic warfare (EW) threat is overlaid with widely available satellite images and mass-produced aerial drones that can loiter for hours and unmask any movement with powerful thermal and night-vision cameras.
While these foundational tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) remain essential, they are fundamentally reactive and highly fallible – camouflage nets tear, perfect discipline is difficult to maintain through the stressors of large-scale combat operations (LSCO), and dispersion demands increased electromagnetic signatures to maintain cohesion.
Current conflicts provide undeniable proof of this new reality. In Ukraine, the sheer density of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and electronic warfare sensors means that virtually no part of the front line remains unobserved. This threat consists of two powerful elements: a mix of cheap, one-way attack drones capable of destroying main battle tanks and sophisticated electronic warfare systems that can intercept encrypted tactical communications in nearly real time. Outside of the Ukraine War, the use of Iranian-made Shahed UAVs by both state and non-state actors in the Middle East further demonstrates the lethality and reach of such systems against conventional forces.
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SWJ isn't wrong but military history shows that an advancement in technology that gives one side the advantage, a counter to that technology will be developed.
Text taken from an article posted at mk.ru
[ColonelCassad] From Sorrow to Victory. My generation, and those older than me, have known Levitan's voice since childhood:
"On June 22, at precisely 4 a.m., Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war."
The Great Patriotic War had begun, lasting four long years. The war rolled like a terrible steamroller across our country, through every family, bringing our people countless hardships, bitter losses, and grief. I remember how we, schoolchildren of that time, always laid flowers at the Eternal Flame on this day; numerous and still quite robust veterans came to our school. And in my ordinary school in the ordinary town of Elektrostal, near Moscow, there was a museum dedicated to the military glory of the Azov and Red Banner Orders, the Orders of Nakhimov and Kutuzov, and the Danube Flotilla.
And I remember how our whole class wrote letters to veterans who lived in various, sometimes very distant, parts of our vast Motherland. In those years, neither in our country nor in the world, not even among our enemies, had the slightest problem with historical memory. It was clear to everyone, like an inexorable fact, that our country, the Soviet Union, had defeated the fascists.
No one scrawled "We can do it again!" on their cars, but everyone—both our enemies and our then-numerous friends—knew that, if necessary, we could certainly do it again—quickly, decisively, and irrevocably. This was so clear that no one even considered testing our country's limits. For the people of our country, peace was an absolute value, and the phrase "as long as there's no war!" was uttered with complete seriousness, its meaning relatable and understandable to everyone.
Some may like the Soviet Union, others may not, but for me now it's perfectly clear that the USSR was the most adequate form of existence for historical Russia in the real world, not in one invented by liberal propagandists. At the cost of terrible losses, the Soviet Union won the right of the strong, and this right was accepted and respected by all countries in the world.
So, historical memory was quite good for both us and our enemies. And if anyone's memory was suddenly impaired, we could remind them without ceremony. "If you want peace, prepare for war!" the ancient Romans said. And "Woe to the vanquished!" they also said.
In our country, we understood this perfectly well and prepared for it—precisely for the sake of peace on Earth. Incidentally, the USSR actively supported peacekeeping organizations around the world during those years. These days, the most important holiday in the country, a holiday that truly unites the entire nation, is May 9—Victory Day. And June 22, the day the Great Patriotic War began—the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, as it is now officially known in our country—is also gaining increasing significance with each passing year.
I think, when it comes to June 22nd, remembrance is no less important than grief. And this remembrance is important not only for us but also for our enemies—yes, enemies, for it turns out that, even geographically, they are once again located in the same places they were during the Great Patriotic War, and they are once again pursuing the same goals, and even their methods are, as experts say, confusingly similar. It turns out that the hatred of Western countries (or rather, their so-called "elites") towards us is in no way tied to the social structure in our country, and a "united Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok" is a far greater utopia than the construction of communism.
Remember, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they began to tell us that we no longer had enemies, that there would be no more wars, that it was time to stop sitting in fortresses and "just live" like all "normal countries."
Ironically, the list of "normal countries" in the propaganda of that time almost completely coincides with the current, quite official, list of unfriendly states, and now, according to all polls, only a minimum number of our population is willing to call them "normal." And we also remember from history that the fate of countries that just wanted to "get by" was decided quickly and without ceremony. Those who don't want to feed their own army will feed someone else's.
It's no secret that Hitler allocated several months to the defeat of the USSR and viewed our country simply as another stage on the path to world domination. And in many Western countries, the establishment thought much the same.
Incidentally, I'm certain that had our country failed, global domination would have become an entirely achievable goal for fascism. I have no doubt that most Western countries would have simply agreed to the terms proposed by the fascists without much resistance and would have easily acceded to the Neues Ordnung, the then-current version of a "rules-based order." They would have struck a deal, in today's parlance.
Quite possibly. Which is why my father put on the British uniform in answer to the call that went out in the Yishuv for Russian translators, and lived for the rest of the war with a unit of Hindi soldiers on the Persian border with the Soviet Union, feeding American war matériel to the Russians so they would have something to fight the Nazis with. From all of us: You’re welcome.
Instead of collapsing a few months later, the USSR consolidated itself, transformed itself, and not only won the war, but emerged from it as a completely different state—a superpower that controlled a significant portion of the world, and to which an even larger portion gravitated. I am sure that we would have defeated the fascists even without our then so-called "allies" in the form of the USA and Great Britain, who entered the war only when it became clear that we were winning without them and that all of Europe would be under our control, because the pro-communist, pro-Soviet (and, let's call a spade a spade, pro-Russian - back then, we were all called "Russians" abroad) sentiments - for example, in France or Italy - by the end of the war were quite comparable to those in Eastern Europe.
I believe that both May 9 and June 22 have once again acquired this significance for our people because the West once again intends to crush us, and intends to do so with the same arrogance as Hitler, in a matter of months. But it didn't work out. And it won't. And once again, as then, we see our country being transformed. Of course, I'm not idealizing anyone, and we are experiencing, as they say now, processes in different directions, but overall, the main trend is quite clear—wittingly or unwittingly, our country is objectively focusing and changing. "Our dead will not abandon us in trouble, our fallen like sentries!"—the wonderful Vladimir Vysotsky once sang.
I also believe that one of the reasons for our defeat in the Cold War was that some of us forgot the price we paid for peace, for our Great Power, and why it all was necessary in the first place. The pathos of war and victory has faded, and many have likely become caught up in the ordinary affairs of everyday life. Many, as I've already said, have decided to "just live," following the analogy of the virus. They've lost their social immunity, lost their sense of right and wrong, and simply stopped even thinking in such terms. Many of our achievements, achieved through enormous labor, losses, and sheer exertion—for example, the NATO border significantly west of Berlin, not 600 kilometers from Moscow, as it is now—have come to be perceived as something given once and for all. Like health, which, when you have it, you don't notice. And the result hasn't been long in coming—much, much more will now have to be started over.
And after our defeat in the Cold War, peace hasn't arrived, quite the opposite! I think no one in the world—not our friends, not our enemies, not even neutral nations—now feels a sense of security and confidence in the future. The hands on that very Doomsday Clock, which measures the time until nuclear apocalypse, are ever closer to midnight.
Perhaps that's why we've so often turned to Soviet holidays, history, symbols, and experience. We're currently fighting with weapons that continue the best Soviet traditions, literally drawing strength from the Soviet oil and gas industry, and so on down the list, from Soviet holidays and memorable dates to our new-old friends, each of whom, it turns out, remembers and thanks us for the help we provided them when we were part of the Soviet Union.
In the USSR, they used to say, "If only there were no war!" Alas, that's a thing of the past. "War is war" suits us better now. The right of the strong is very difficult to gain, easy to lose, and extremely difficult to regain. Yes, many trials and even tragedies await us ahead. That's life. But I have no doubt that all these trials will change us and our country for the better, and we will once again take our rightful place in the world and, I'm sure, once again, like the USSR, lead the nations into a future worthy of humanity.
A minute of silence has been observed across Russia on Remembrance and Sorrow Day, June 22.
The protest took place at 12:15 PM Moscow time, the same time as the broadcast of USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov's address to Soviet citizens about the attack of Nazi troops on the Soviet Union.
The Day of Remembrance and Sorrow is celebrated on June 22, the day the Great Patriotic War began. 2026 marks exactly 85 years since Nazi Germany invaded the USSR.
On June 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin walls, and also laid flowers at the monuments of hero cities near the Kremlin walls, including Kyiv and Odessa.
On the same day, a fiery display made from fragments of the Eternal Flame was lit on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow as part of the all-Russian, internationally-involved "Victory Road" campaign, which took place from June 17 to 19 in eight Hero Cities of the Russian Federation in memory of the 27 million Soviet citizens who died during the Great Patriotic War.
On May 9, speaking at the Victory Parade in Moscow, the head of state emphasized that Russia carefully preserves the memory of the heroism and legacy of Soviet soldiers.
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A friend and Soviet defector's father was named a hero of the Soviet Union by dying in the first Kursk battle that Russia never talks about. That happened only a few days after the Nazi invasion.
His mother was pregnant with him at the time and she was made a ward of a top Soviet family. When he grew up with all sorts of benefits made from that he was forced to marry her daughter who taught communism at the main Moscow University in the same way in latter decades that Gorbachev's wife did... He built the analog woodpecker radar everybody knows about and when he needed a reactor to power it asked Brezhnev to build Chernobyl.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
The change in the headline is mine alone.
[ColonelCassad] The FSB has published documents detailing Nazi atrocities in the Leningrad Region. More than a dozen documents have been released detailing atrocities committed by Nazi invaders and their collaborators in the occupied territories of what are now the Leningrad and Novgorod Regions from 1941 to 1943. This was reported by the press service of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
Most of the published sources are special reports from Pyotr Kubatkin, head of the NKVD Directorate for the Leningrad Region and Leningrad, addressed to officials in the NKVD leadership and the Leningrad Front. For example, in Gatchina, by the end of November 1941, the Nazis established a camp for prisoners of war and civilians, housing up to 1,500 people. Prisoners were kept on a starvation diet in the Red Barracks on the outskirts of the city, sleeping and eating on the floor and outside. There was no drinking water or toilets, and no medical care for the sick.
Meanwhile, people were forced to work various jobs every day for up to 14 hours. "Finns and Estonians supervise the work in the fields and forests. The treatment of prisoners is brutal; for the slightest offense, they are beaten to death (falling behind the line, leaving the barracks at the wrong time, etc.). <…>
Up to 30 people die in the camp daily; on November 25th, seven bodies were carried out of the barracks in the morning alone," according to a special report by Pyotr Kubatkin dated December 3, 1941.
Around the same time, in November-December 1941, in the village of Verkhoviny in the Volkhov district, the collective farmer Anisimova was shot "for refusing to give a saw to German soldiers for cutting firewood."
And in the village of Terebonizhye, German officers herded all the men and children into the forest for a hunt, forcing them to "bark like dogs, intending to drive hares out of the forest and onto the road."
Another document, dated April 1942, reports on established instances of Nazi atrocities and violence in the recently liberated Tikhvin district. "The famous Tikhvin Monastery was converted by the German invaders into a medieval torture chamber, where Gestapo agents executed and shot captured Red Army soldiers and Soviet citizens.
After the Germans were expelled from the region, the half-dead Red Army soldiers Gromov and Takashev, and railroad workers Mikhailov and Stepanov, were found in one of the monastery's cells. The Nazis stripped them of all their outer clothing, dragged them around the city on sleds, then threw them into a cold monastery cell and kept them there for six days without food.
In another cell, the mutilated body of a 15-year-old girl, Lydia Kolodetskaya, was found, having been raped and tortured," the special report stated.
In October 2022, the Leningrad Regional Court recognized the crimes committed by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators in the region during the Great Patriotic War as genocide. Note that the Germans did not have the manpower for all the atrocities committed against the local populace without the help of local civilians, forced or not.
So it was, pretty much everywhere they conquered. Anne Frank’s location was betrayed to the Nazis by someone Dutch.
According to the investigative evidence presented at the trial, during the occupation of the Leningrad Region, more than 435,400 Soviet civilians were shot, killed by bombs and shells, hanged, tortured, and deported to Germany for forced labor—a fifth of the population of today's Leningrad Region. Twenty cities and 3,135 villages, hamlets, and other populated areas in the region were almost completely destroyed, many of which were never rebuilt.
[Breitbart] The trade-off with globalized trade was supposed to work something like this. Globalization would allow for additional specialization, improving productivity. We would concentrate on stuff we could produce most effectively, while importing stuff were comparatively less effective at making.
U.S. factories might employ fewer people, but the remaining workers would be producing more with better machines, better software, better supply chains, and better management. Productivity improvement was supposed to be the consolation prize for deindustrialization. We were losing jobs, the story went, but we were gaining efficiency.
But that’s not what happened at all. Manufacturing labor productivity grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate from 1987 to 2010. From 2010 to 2023, it shrank at a 0.3 percent annual rate.
The Import Invasion did not just replace American goods with foreign goods. It hollowed out the system that produced American productivity.
What we saw was surge in imports relative to what America still made at home. Imports as a share of domestic manufacturing output rose from 28 percent in 2000 to 45 percent in 2023. In other words, foreign production did not simply supplement American manufacturing. It increasingly substituted for it.
That matters because productivity gains are not primarily produced by Ivy League-educated consultants or white papers. They come from inside an industrial system. When import competition drives down domestic output, plants close, workers leave, suppliers disappear, and process knowledge migrates abroad. In other words, Gordon and Ryu argue that the factory floor is not just where goods are assembled. It is where engineers learn what works, where defects are discovered, where workers find better methods, and where suppliers and manufacturers solve problems together. Workers bring this kind of knowledge with them as they shift between firms when manufacturing employment is abundant. Hollow out production, and eventually you hollow out the capacity to improve production.
[Freightwaves] A new wave of bankruptcies and layoffs swept through the transportation and logistics sector over the past 10 days, with trucking companies, truck dealers, repair businesses and logistics providers filing for Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 protection while hundreds of workers faced job cuts nationwide.
The latest filings, spanning June 5 through Monday, underscore the continuing strain on freight-related businesses as elevated operating costs and financing challenges continue to pressure carriers and logistics providers.
[Breitbart] On Monday, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by Biden, issued an order to prevent the Trump administration from using a streamlined version of the federal government’s SAVE program to combat voter fraud.
The update to SAVE allowed states to more quickly verify that only American citizens are voting in federal elections by no longer requiring that all nine digits of a voter registrant’s Social Security Number have to be entered to verify eligibility.
“This case implicates two fundamental rights that protect Americans from government overreach: the right to privacy and the right to vote,” Sooknanan, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, wrote:
In the past year, several federal agencies have joined forces to create a centralized federal database that contains the private information of United States citizens, including Social Security numbers, citizenship status, and other sensitive data. [Emphasis added]But decades ago, Congress put protections in place to prevent precisely this type of centralized data bank. And the record in this case shows that the federal agencies that created this database knew that the database violates those statutory protections. The agencies were scrambling to comply with an Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification. So they haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable. Since then, states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information. All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens. [Emphasis added]
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The electorate is woefully uninformed about the key role the US Congress is playing in permitting federal judges like "Sparkle" from interfering with federal policies. The US Congress could simply abolish the DC District Court for DC with a simply majority vote, and establish another with all new federal judges, as it did in 1863.
[Breitbart] U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz issued a ruling on June 17 that was unsealed on Monday, according to Politico. In his ruling, Schiltz explained that “initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents” was an “unlawful and unethical use” of the grand-jury process.
“Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action — particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take — is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand-jury process,” Schlitz said.
Schlitz also claimed that President Donald Trump’s attacks and “promises of ‘retribution'” aimed at Walz and other Democrats in the state “establishes beyond reasonable dispute” that the DOJ’s grand jury subpoenas were “part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials,” according to the outlet:
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U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, appointed by W Bush
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Schiltz explained that “initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents” was an “unlawful and unethical use” of the grand-jury process.
Unless your name is Donald Trump. Two Tier Justice.
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The US Congress continues to permit judges like Schiltz and the federal court he servers on to remain in office. Electorate continues in total ignorance of the role of Congress in this situation.
[IsraelNationalNews] Heading into the U.S. midterm elections this November, almost every American politician asked about Israel is being asked the same question, on every stage: Should the United States continue aid to Israel? Should it be cut, conditioned, or used as leverage?
The question carries a premise. The premise is that American support for Israel is a transfer of value from a benefactor to a recipient, and that the only remaining question is how generous the benefactor should be.
That premise is wrong. It has been wrong for a long time. And because it is wrong, the debate built on top of it produces answers that misrepresent to the American people what their money has actually been doing for the past half-century.
I served as Israel’s Minister of Defense during the most difficult period in our modern history, more than a year of the seven-front war that began on October 7, 2023. I have sat across the table from American counterparts in shaping this relationship. I have watched, on the battlefield, what American and Israeli capabilities look like when they are combined against a common enemy.
I want to set out what this relationship actually is, and what it is not.
Under the current Memorandum of Understanding, the United States provides Israel $3.8 billion annually, of which $3.3 billion is Foreign Military Financing and $500 million is cooperative missile defense. American political discourse treats this as foreign aid, grouping it with disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, calling it a subsidy or a gift.
The description misidentifies the transaction.
Foreign Military Financing is not a transfer of value to Israel. It is a defense procurement arrangement under which Israel receives the dollars on paper and then spends them on American-made defense equipment, produced on American soil, by American workers, in American congressional districts.
By 2028, nearly every Foreign Military Financing dollar will be required to be spent in the United States. The checks are written in Jerusalem. The jobs are in Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, Arizona, and Connecticut.
This is a co-investment in American industrial capability, denominated in American manufacturing output. Investments are measured by their return, and the return on this one is documented.
When American Foreign Military Financing dollars pay for the F-15s, F-35s, and other U.S.-made systems Israel buys, Israel’s own defense budget is freed for what no foreign assistance program covers, namely the indigenous research and development of Israeli systems.
The aid does not simply move money. It allows Israel to invest its own resources in domestic research and development at a scale no other ally can match, with the urgency of a country that has stood under arms continuously for nearly 80 years, defending borders against constant attack from neighbors who do not accept its existence. No other Western country has built up that kind of accumulated combat experience over that span of time.
The systems that come out of that research and development get tested under combat conditions. By the time they mature, they have been validated against the most demanding threat environments in the world. American forces then receive the finished products, ready for fielding, without having paid for the development cycle and without having borne the operational risk of testing them in war.
Trophy, the active protection system now fielded on American Abrams tanks across multiple armored brigades, was developed in Israel using Israeli resources, combat-proven on Israeli Merkavas, and only then procured by the U.S. Army after American commanders concluded no equivalent American system existed. The helmet-mounted display that defines the F-35’s pilot interface, supplied through a joint venture between Israel’s Elbit Systems and the American firm Collins Aerospace, equips every F-35 produced anywhere in the world.
In the June 2025 campaign against Iran and the February 2026 joint operation, Israeli air defenses helped protect American bases across the Gulf, and Israeli intelligence and electronic warfare contributed to combined operations that would otherwise have required additional American deployments.
The American taxpayer rarely hears about these returns, because the political debate is conducted at the level of the headline number rather than at the level of the mechanism. The mechanism is not charity. American dollars flow into American factories, American assistance frees Israeli capital for innovation, and American forces eventually receive Israeli-developed capabilities refined in real combat.
If you are still not convinced this is a good investment, set the United States government aside for a moment and ask the question any private investor would ask: Would a private investor put capital into Israel right now?
The answer is in public data anyone can pull up.
In 2025, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s flagship index rose roughly 50 percent, after rising 30 percent in 2024. It was the best-performing major stock market in the world for two consecutive years.
Foreign institutional holdings in Tel Aviv equities reached a record $19 billion, more than double the pre-war level, with 80 percent of inflows from North America. Google paid $32 billion for a single Israeli cybersecurity company (Wiz), the largest acquisition in Google’s history.
In 2020, Nvidia, a single American company, paid $6.9 billion for one Israeli technology firm called Mellanox, a specialist in high-speed networking. That single acquisition cost roughly 1.8 times what the United States transfers to Israel in an entire year. Mellanox’s technology became the networking core of the entire AI data center revolution.
Nvidia’s networking division, built on the acquisition, generated nearly $11 billion in revenue in a single recent quarter, exceeding the entire purchase price. Over the same period, Nvidia’s market capitalization rose from $93 billion to more than $5 trillion.
This is one American company making one investment in one Israeli company. The bet was less than two years of American aid to Israel. The return reshaped an industry.
All of this happened while Israel has faced multi-front wars, alongside European arms embargoes, credit-rating downgrades, and the most sustained international campaign to isolate Israel diplomatically in a generation. Capital does not vote with slogans. It votes with facts. Every major institutional investor in the world, looking at the same evidence available to Washington, is increasing their allocation to Israel.
Washington is the only one debating an exit.
$3.8 billion is a significant amount of money, and the security assistance Israel receives from the United States matters to Israel. But the budgetary share has changed. In the past, the aid was a significant share of Israeli GDP.
Today, measured against an Israeli economy approaching $720 billion, it represents about half a percent. The shekel appreciated 14 percent against the dollar in 2025 alone, reaching its strongest level in three decades, further reducing the aid’s practical value to Israel.
The aid still matters in budgetary terms. The relative share is much smaller than it once was. And alongside that change, the shared benefit, what each country gains from the partnership, has only grown more important.
There is no doubt the time has come to update the system. The original relationship was built between a global superpower and a small, determined country at the start of its journey.
Today Israel is still small, but it is also a defense partner that fights alongside American forces, an arms exporter to dozens of allied nations, and a creator of technologies that the whole world buys and that the United States benefits from. Israeli defense exports reached $14.8 billion in 2024 in their fourth consecutive record year, placing Israel among the top 10 arms exporters in the world. Nothing succeed like success - in arousing envy, resentment, and - eventually - murderous hate.
This is no longer the relationship the original aid framework was designed to manage.
The shift is already happening, project by project, contract by contract - American capital and scale meeting Israeli research and combat validation, manufacturing running through both economies, export revenue shared, strategic capability compounding on both sides. The pattern is consistent.
What is missing is the framework that institutionalizes it as the basis of the relationship rather than the exception to it.
American security assistance to Israel is, in effect, already an American investment in joint developments. I proposed this evolution when I was Israel’s Minister of Defense, and I am proposing it again now. The transition should happen gradually, with both governments designing the instruments, the rules, and the milestones together. The proper horizon is 2048, Israel’s centennial, 22 years away - the length of a mortgage.
A long-term industrial program, not a political instrument used against either ally for electoral advantage.
The American public deserves a true picture of this relationship, not an agenda dressed up as policy analysis to serve someone’s political interests. Americans understand the difference between a cost and a return, between a handout and a stake. What they rightly object to is being told that a strategic asset is a cost, or that a co-investment which has built American factories, fielded American capabilities, and protected American troops is a favor done to someone else.
The data points the same way from every direction. The battlefield says the partnership works. American industry says the partnership works. Capital markets say the partnership works. Every investor with access to the facts is committing more to Israel, not less.
The question is not whether to continue. The question is how to update the structure to reflect what the evidence has been showing for years.
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The relationship between the US and Israel is always going to have times when the two countries don't agree and have differing goals. However I don't the relationship ever breaking*.
*Unless the far left of the Democratic wing gains control.
I don't understand why American Jews continue to vote for the Democratic Party which takes them for granted.
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Foreign aid to a country with free healthcare and free college has always aroused resentment. That's why a bill is working its way through Congress to join the CIA and Mossad, and the military-industrial complex and the IDF. That will permanently end this harmful debate. Israel is a mere 9 million people, they need all the help they can get.
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That's why a bill is working its way through Congress to join the CIA and Mossad,
No, there is not. We’ve debunked this for you before.
It’s a deliberate lie that showed up simultaneously on a lot of influencer alt-right sites, so you should ask who thinks you are stupid enough to believe all the lies contained in the few words of your little comment, Spats Whereck2759.
Define foreign aid? Very misleading, you are being a weasel worder, because...
Are we sending money to Israel to buy food? No.
Are we sending money to them to open temples? No.
Are we paying for Israeli abortions? No.
Are we paying for gay parades and gay stuff? No.
Are we paying for Aids Prevention? No.
Foreign Aid, colloquially as we understand it, is not happening here. We are collaborating with the Jews in building weapons. The jews per capital have lots of Nobel laureates... So your foreign aid is really American Scientists and Munition Manufacturers working with one of the smartest groups of people on the planet to make better weapons.
That is your foreigner aid = better weapon platforms.
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All the Democrats hate you and want all the Jews to die. Let’s get the cards out there – they would be happy for Israel’s enemies to butcher everybody from the river to the sea.
And so you see, Grom, Trump must not let Democrats take the House or the Senate in the November mid-terms and that means the oil must start flowing again, at least until November. You may not like it. I don't either. But it's the damn truth.
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^Your Vance - the next POTUS IF things go your way - is no better.
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