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 14, 2014 2:17 pm

Can We Build a Second Iraqi Army?

Secretary of State Kerry is in the Middle East, looking for regional allies for President Obama's proposal to deal with the threat of the Islamic...

July 29, 2014 12:29 am

Why a Ceasefire Wouldn’t Help

This article by Shoshana Bryen was originally published by The American Thinker. The Israeli Cabinet unanimously rejected the terms of a Gaza ceasefire proposed by Hamas front...

July 4, 2014 8:24 am

A Requiem for Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel, and Mohammed Karaka

This article by Shoshana Bryen was originally published by The American Thinker. On June 30, the Embassy of Israel announced: "With great sadness we must announce the...

May 9, 2014 7:41 am

Hamas: No Hope for Peace With Israel

Sometimes it is braggadocio. Sometimes it is the last rhetorical shot before making a political change previously thought impossible. But sometimes, just sometimes, it is...

May 2, 2014 7:22 am

Israel and the Palestinians: Zero Sum Suffering

For Palestinians, suffering -- and sympathy for suffering -- is a zero-sum game. Sympathy used up on the Holocaust means less for Palestinians in the...

April 18, 2014 3:15 pm

How U.S. Foreign Policy Went Wrong and Why

It is tempting to simply list all the ways the Obama administration -- particularly Secretaries Kerry and Hagel - has been wrong on foreign and...

March 21, 2014 9:54 am

Opinion: What’s Happening to the Internet?

It sounds like something you don't want to know too much about. When you type an address into your computer's browser, you go to that address....

March 17, 2014 11:28 am

An EU Report and EU Money Threaten Israel

As Israelis in the southern part of the country have taken to shelters and safe rooms under a barrage of more than 60 (and counting)...

March 13, 2014 12:40 am

An ‘Unfriendly Gesture’

In response to mounting unhappiness in the West with Russia's acquisition of Crimea and plans to split Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has struck again. The Russian...

February 28, 2014 10:31 am

What the Defense Cuts Mean for America

If you are surprised by this week's announcement of major manpower cuts to the U.S. Army, you haven't been paying attention. For a long time. There...

January 13, 2014 8:21 am

My Meeting With Ariel Sharon

Shortly after the 1982 Lebanon War, I was in Israel with three retired, high-ranking American General Officers, including the former Chief of the Defense Intelligence...

December 31, 2013 11:25 am

Five Weeks Since the Geneva ‘Deal’

As the P5+1 nuclear negotiation with Iran was taking shape, Secretary of State John Kerry was irritated by the discomfort shown by Congress, Israel and...

December 27, 2013 4:28 pm

Protect the Iraqi Jewish Archive, or it Will Face a Terrible Fate

The 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue in Damascus is said to be the site where the prophet Elijah concealed himself from persecution and anointed his successor, Elisha....

December 23, 2013 1:58 am