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Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/29/america-benefits-security-partnership-israel/
How America Benefits from Its Security Partnership with Israel
(Washington Times) Bradley Bowman - In the Middle East, America's most reliable, capable and motivated ally is Israel. Years ago, a U.S. military colonel assigned as an attache to the Israeli military told me that we Americans get far more than we give in the relationship with Israel. All of Israel's enemies are America's enemies. Last weekend, Israel severely degraded Iran's strategic air defense capabilities and destroyed a significant portion of its missile production capabilities. If Iran decides to make a sprint for a nuclear weapon and leaves the U.S. no choice but to intervene, Israel just made the mission for the Department of Defense easier. In addition, Israeli pilots just demonstrated the superiority of American aircraft and weapons over Russian air and missile defense systems. That could increase orders for American weapons, employ more Americans, bolster our economy, and help revitalize our defense industrial base. Thank you, Israel. Israel is a technology superpower. It consistently creates world-class weapons and capabilities and exhibits an impressive ability to field them quickly. For example, technologies that Israel developed to detect, map and destroy Hizbullah and Hamas tunnels were shared with Americans. The U.S. then used these Israeli technologies to find and neutralize drug-smuggling tunnels under our southern border. Understanding the value of working with Israel, the Department of Defense established the U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group in 2021. Its six subgroups include artificial intelligence/autonomy, directed energy, counter-unmanned aerial systems, biotechnology, integrated network systems-of-systems, and hypersonic capabilities. The writer, a former Black Hawk pilot and assistant professor at West Point, is senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.