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

September 5, 2019 6:13 am

Why Is the US Training and Equipping the Lebanese Army?

American security assistance generally is predicated on the principle that a smaller or poorer country that has US equipment and training will be better able...

August 22, 2019 7:40 am

At the Risk of Further Upsetting Ms. Tlaib

Rashida Tlaib was in tears over the conditions in which her grandmother lives in the West Bank, and furious that her mother, an American citizen,...

July 22, 2019 9:29 am

Patiently Squeezing Iran

What appears to be an oil tanker war brewing in the Red Sea and beyond -- including the downing of an Iranian drone by a...

June 21, 2019 8:04 am

For Ilhan Omar, History Starts Today

For Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the world must start fresh every day. That would explain her ignorance on Iran. “None of this [tension] would be happening...

May 20, 2019 7:00 am

A Middle Ground on Trump and Orbán at the White House

Despite the fact that the Trump administration has spent two years communicating its concerns with Hungary regarding academic freedom, antisemitism, and other illiberal positions of...

May 7, 2019 7:42 am

The Iranian Mullahs Are Nervous

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s appearance over the weekend on CBS’s Face the Nation showed him trying to convince someone -- his minders at home, perhaps --...

May 1, 2019 12:04 pm

The Reality of the ‘Two-State Solution’

Last week, Jared Kushner, one of the Trump administration’s point men on the Middle East, dispensed with the term “two-state solution.” “The two-state solution has failed,”...

April 4, 2019 8:38 am

Gaza Rebellion as the Arab Spring

For the past year, Hamas has pushed Palestinians to demonstrate and riot on Fridays along the Gaza-Israel fence. The civilians, of which there are many,...

March 27, 2019 10:36 am

In Syria, Russia Reveals Its Nefarious Aims and Alliance with Iran

It is amazing how little Bashar Assad and the Syrian government have to do with the disposition of Syrian assets and territory, as the murderous rampage of the last...

February 27, 2019 7:21 am

What Is Venezuela Really About? Russia, Iran, China, and More

The Russian- and Cuban-supported Maduro regime is getting bolder in its attempts to crush the people of Venezuela, and is now working to block aid...

February 20, 2019 11:24 am

A Palestinian Terrorist Too Brutal for Fatah

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has finally found a terrorist act committed by a Palestinian against an Israeli that it wants to disassociate from. The horrific...

January 25, 2019 11:07 am

Finally Signs of Hope for Venezuela?

Is it too soon to cheer for the Venezuelan people, who have taken their future into their own hands -- and at grave risk? Is...

January 16, 2019 5:17 am

Why Israel Must Seek the Golan Heights Now

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a public declaration of Israel's interest in having the United States recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Senators...

December 27, 2018 9:29 am