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

April 17, 2013 1:56 am

Happy Birthday, Israel

If countries were people and Israel was an American, it would begin to collect Social Security in nine months. It would be eligible for...

April 9, 2013 9:25 am

What Does the US Want in Syria?

A maxim in the United States Army is, "Don't tell a soldier to do something; tell him what you want done." President Roosevelt didn't...

April 8, 2013 1:37 am

Burning Down the Palestinian House

This article by Shoshana Bryen was originally published by the Gatestone Insitute. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to "suspend unilateral action" against Israel for...

March 25, 2013 3:27 am

Obama’s Unintended Compliment for Israel

This article by Shohana Bryen was originally published by the Gatestone Institute. President Obama's visit to Israel, and particularly his speech to 500 university students,...

March 22, 2013 1:56 am

Obama and the Palestinians: The Israel Test and the America Test

President Obama has had an opportunity during his visit to see some of Israel's pioneering technology. The list (with thanks to Tom Gross) includes...

March 18, 2013 1:28 am

Mr. President, Israel Has An Elected Government

That's something to remember when you arrive there next week. Israel has a government, elected by its people in a free, fair, open and democratic...

March 14, 2013 12:59 am

Is the US Training Syrian Rebels to Take the Golan Heights and Shoot Down Israeli Aircraft?

No, they don't say it quite like that. But after years of hypocrisy, the Obama administration has admitted that while it declined to arm...

March 11, 2013 12:01 am

Current Limits of U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation

This article by Shoshana Bryen was originally published by the Gatestone Institute. Shared values and democratic systems count for a lot in the political world --...

February 26, 2013 2:30 am

Secretary Kerry’s Maiden Speech

Stipulating that foreign aid can be an important part of American foreign policy, and further that trade is an important component of U.S. foreign policy;...

February 25, 2013 3:35 am

A Hard Reckoning

This article by Shoshana Bryen was originally published by the Gatestone Institute. Bashar Assad faces a hard reckoning. Not the one that comes from ...

February 20, 2013 1:10 am

Mr. Obama Goes to Ramallah

President Obama's plans in the Middle East include three and a half hours in Ramallah to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The ...

February 4, 2013 2:15 am

Chuck Hagel: Mediocre Boilerplate

For all the thunder about the "missing" J Street speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2009, watching it was almost a letdown. There is simply no "smoking-gun"...

January 24, 2013 12:38 am

The Changing of the Israeli Guard

Israel had a party on Election Day. The weather was beautiful and people went to the beach and the parks by the tens of...

January 23, 2013 1:18 am

Enshrining Ideologies: Egypt and the U.S.

For days now, the twittersphere and even the mainstream media have been agog at the anti-Semitism spewing in a now-viral video by Mohammed Morsi in...