A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)
2/9/20261 hr 8 min
What does war look like when fought under the harshest scrutiny? Veteran soldier and military researcher Andrew Fox talks about his first-hand experience in Gaza with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. He and Roberts explore the challenges of reporting and understanding the war amid the challenges of disinformation, and why Fox believes that the IDF had few tactical alternatives to destroying infrastructure and buildings in the Gaza Strip. Fox also addresses the claims that Israel deliberately targeted Gazan children and wielded starvation as a weapon, and explains why he believes that Israel succeeded in achieving its strategic war goals.
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[upbeat music] Welcome to EconTalk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to two thousand and six. Our email address is mail@econtalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. [upbeat music] Today is January 15th, twenty twenty-six, and my guest is Andrew Fox. I usually give our guests a title, like author or journalist or historian. Andrew's a little different. Uh, his life experiences are not easily captured in a single word or phrase, so I'm gonna give you a piece of his bio. Uh, he served in the British Army from two thousand and five to twenty twenty-one. He completed three tours in Afghanistan, including one attached to the US Army Special Forces. He served in the Parachute Regiment and Special Forces Support Group, with additional tours in Bosnia, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland. After his active service, he spent three years as a senior lecturer in the War Studies and Behavioral Science departments at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, in, uh, in the UK. Uh, he specializes