Dr. Yagil Henkin
Dr. Yagil Henkin is a lecturer on military thought, history, and strategy at the IDF Command and Staff College, a reservist with the IDF History Department, and a lecturer in the Shalem College Department of Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security. The author of three books and numerous academic and popular articles and book reviews, he earned his MA in military history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his PhD in military history from Bar-Ilan University. Henkin is also the author of Uneasy Red, a self-guided journey of the main battle sites on Omaha Beach in Normandy, and (co-authored with Jaacob Saar) the Israel National Trail guidebook, now in its fourth edition.
Selected Publications
Books
Like Fish in the Bush: Rhodesia at War, 1965-1980 (Tel Aviv: Maarachot, 2020). [Hebrew]
The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse (New York: Lexington Academic Publishers, 2015).
Either We Win or We Perish: The History of the First Chechen War, 1994-1996 (Tel Aviv: Maarachot, 2007). [Hebrew]
Articles
“How Great Nations Can Win Small Wars,” Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation (Spring 2006).
“Urban Warfare and the Lessons of Jenin,” Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation (Spring 2003).