Since its founding, Israel’s market for weapons has developed in tandem with its war objectives. The institutionalized lack of discipline that characterizes Israel’s campaign of annihilation in Gaza represents another strategic shift in Israel’s privatized arms industry: an increase in…

Martin Luther King once called the United States government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” That formulation may be controversial, but no one denies that the US is by far the world’s biggest arms dealer, with a 42…

Since Hamas launched its attack on southern Israel on October 7, the question of deterrence has loomed over the region: who holds it, what does it consist of, and how will the balance of forces tilt or not tilt towards…