Ron Tira

 

BIO

Lieutenant Colonel Ron Tira (Res.), a former fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, is the author of the book “The Nature of War: Conflicting Paradigms and Israeli Military Effectiveness”. Tira has over 25 years of experience in intelligence and military affairs and is currently a businessman and a reservist at the Israeli Air Force’s Campaign Planning Department.

PUBLICATIONS

(Abridged list)

 

 

"The Breakup of Israel’s Strategic Puzzle", Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Strategic Assessment Vol. 14, No. 3 2011

 

Can Iran be Deterred?, Hoover Institution, Policy Review - No. 169, 1 October 2011

 

The United States in the Middle East: An Exercise in Self-Defeat, Strategic Assessment, INSS, Volume 14, No. 1, April 2011. 

 

Forming an Israeli Policy Toward Syria; Yediot Aharonot Publising; Tel Aviv; 2000

 

The Nature of War – Conflicting Paradigms and Israeli Military Effectiveness; Sussex Academic Press; Brighton/Portland/Vancouver; 2009.

 

“The Struggle over the Nature of War”, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), 2008

 

The Limitations of Standoff Firepower-Based Operations, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), 2007

 

“Shifting Tectonic Plates: Basic Assumptions on the Peace Process Revisited”, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Strategic Assessment; Volume 12, No. 1, June 2009

 

A Military Attack on Iran? Considerations for Israeli Decision Making, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Strategic Assessment; Volume 13, No. 1, July 2010

 

Breaking the Amoebae’s Bones (Lessons Learned from the Second Lebanon War); Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Strategic Assessment, Volume 9, No. 3, November 2006