Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen
Shoshana Bryen is Senior Director of The Jewish Policy Center. She has more than 30 years of experience as an analyst of U.S. defense policy and Middle East affairs, and has run programs and conferences with American military personnel in various countries. The former Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA, Mrs. Bryen was for 17 years author of the widely read and republished JINSA Reports. After serving as JINSA's Executive Director during the 1980s, she focused on planning and running national security related programs and conferences in the U.S., Israel, Jordan, Taiwan and elsewhere. She has worked with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and lectured at the National Defense University in Washington. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun and Defense News, among other outlets, as well as in JINSA Reports.

ARTICLES BY: Shoshana Bryen

January 18, 2013 4:12 am

The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Doesn’t End the War With Al Qaeda

As President Obama stood with Afghan President Karzai to announce the "Afghanization" of the war, it seems appropriate to weigh the president's words...

January 15, 2013 2:38 am

The Strange Arrest of Zaki al-Sakani

Much of the Palestinian-Israeli Oslo "peace process" mythology is grounded in the idea that if "the Palestinians" were treated as a single, responsible...

January 11, 2013 2:37 am

Where the Pressure Lies

The United States is about to get new secretaries of state and defense and a new director of Central Intelligence. It is devoutly to...

December 31, 2012 10:16 pm

“Carnage in Schedule Two”

Author Lela Gilbert, a Christian who lived for years in Israel, spoke for many of Israel's supporters when she said she finds the international community's...

December 21, 2012 4:25 pm

Converging Toward Hamas

There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control...

December 7, 2012 4:46 pm

Back to Being a “Sh**ty Little Country”

Before Israel sat in the UN dock facing Mahmoud Abbas, a man who denied the Holocaust in his doctoral dissertation and denies the link between Jews,...

December 5, 2012 11:23 pm

Sudan Must Face the Consequences of Its Alliance With Iran

Iran has made common cause with similarly nasty countries around the world to promote an anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Western agenda. This includes the transfer of...

November 30, 2012 4:56 pm

Why Abbas Went to the UN and Israel Didn’t Invade Gaza

Before a radio interview this week, the host sent a list of questions that might arise. The answer to an extraordinary number of them was,...

November 21, 2012 2:24 pm

Ceasing Fire: Response to Warfare from Gaza, Part I

It is an odd thing, this ceasing of fire being negotiated between Israel and Hamas. A throwback to wars of old, it postulates that in...

November 7, 2012 6:35 pm

The Enemy of My Enemy in Damascus

A reminder to the administration: the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. The friend of my friend is not necessarily my friend. ...

October 29, 2012 6:46 pm

Having our Soldiers’ Back

The government of Israel traded 1,700 Palestinian terrorists for Sgt. Gilad Shalit, an IDF soldier kidnapped and held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israelis have been...

October 24, 2012 6:06 pm

Why Sanctions on Iran Won’t Stop their Nuclear Program

Western Iran-watchers have been pleased these past few weeks to see evidence that international sanctions against the Islamic Republic appear to have precipitated the collapse...

October 21, 2012 2:25 am