Eitan Shamir of The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies examines claims that Israel lacks a clear, long-term plan for the end of its current multi-front war. Noting that tactical maneuvers are an essential part of any larger strategic plan, Shamir explains how Operation Iron Swords is designed to upend the regional status quo and strengthen Israel’s position well into the future.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.


