Communications

While Hezbollah is widely considered to be Iran’s most powerful proxy in the region, Yoel Guzansky, a former official on Israel’s National Security Council, told The Washington Post on Friday that the Houthis are “more technologically advanced than perceived,” and warned that they should not be “underrated.” Guzansky explained that the large amount of military and financial...

“The Houthis want a war of attrition on Israel, to continue firing so that they can say, ‘We are the real resistance,’” said Yoel Guzansky, a former official on Israel’s National Security Council who is now a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. But the cost calculus is complicated for Israel. Houthi drones and missiles cost around several...

Yoel Guzansky, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, said that continuing in the vein of Israel’s efforts thus far is unlikely to be successful. “Yemen is like Somalia,” he said. “It’s worse than Gaza. They have no infrastructure. We need to understand the nature of the enemy. They’re not a country where you can attack their assets. They’re something...

“What we’ve done so far — I don’t want to call it a complete failure, but our operational successes have not yet brought the desired results,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and research fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies. “And our options aren’t good, either.”

Dr. Yoel Guzansky, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), adds: "The independence of the Houthis has always existed, and Iranian control of them has never been as tight as it was over Hezbollah and the Assad regime. It’s not clear how much coordination there is at present, and it could be that the Iranians have an interest in presenting...

Dr Yehoshua Kalisky of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies said that data on the missile launched on Sunday made available indicated that it was “certainly not a hypersonic cruise missile”. According to reports, the missile was hit by at least one Arrow interceptor but not destroyed. Writing on X/Twitter, Dr Kalisky said it appeared that the Houthi weapon “had...