This article provides an overview of Israel’s extraordinary air defence system, examining both its strategic necessity and its unintended consequences
It exposes the opportunity — cost of maintaining a technologically superior yet economically burdensome defence apparatus, questioning whether this reliance on interception alone has prolonged rather than resolved the threats Israel faces Yes!
Beyond the financial and psychological toll, the article explores how adversaries exploit this defensive posture to dictate the terms of engagement
Finally, it considers alternative approaches used in the region to defeat terrorism, contrasting Israel’s measured responses with the decisive actions taken by its neighbours to neutralise similar threats
