Strategic Realignments: The Middle East After the Israel-Iran Conflict

July 2025

Virtual Event

Strategic Realignments: The Middle East After the Israel-Iran Conflict

Virtual Event

Online Only

July 28, 2025

An Israel Defense Forces jeep drives past an Israeli flag on January 9, 2025, in Metula, Israel. (Getty Images)

July 2025

Virtual Event

Speakers:

Dan Diker

President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

David Wurmser

Senior Analyst, Center for Security Policy

Moderator:

Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Michael Doran, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs President Dan Diker, and Center for Security Policy Senior Analyst David Wurmser will discuss the shifting dynamics in the Middle East following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in an event moderated by Research Fellow Zineb Riboua. They will examine how Israel’s decision to act independently has impacted its relationship with the United States, what the war’s outcome signals for Iran’s regional ambitions, and how key players like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Syria are recalibrating in its aftermath.

July 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Postponed | Bridging the Valley of Death: Using Experimentation to Solve Operational Problems

Featured Speakers:

Joy Shanaberger

Dan Ermer

Capt. Raymond G. Stromberger

Gary Western

David Schmolke

Yi Chao

Rick Berger

Gina Pizziconi

Alex Lovett

Dan Edwards

Moderators:

Dan Lamothe

Bryan Clark

Dan Patt

July 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Postponed | Bridging the Valley of Death: Using Experimentation to Solve Operational Problems

Please join Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Bryan Clark, US defense officials, and industry leaders for an event highlighting the DoD’s recent accomplishments in translating concept to capability through experimentation in support of the nation’s most urgent military challenges.

Featured Speakers:

Joy Shanaberger

Dan Ermer

Capt. Raymond G. Stromberger

Gary Western

David Schmolke

Yi Chao

Rick Berger

Gina Pizziconi

Alex Lovett

Dan Edwards

Moderators:

Dan Lamothe

Bryan Clark

Dan Patt

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July 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

David Petraeus on What Taiwan Can Learn from Ukraine’s Battlefield Experience

Featured Speakers:

Kenneth R. Weinstein

General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.)

Moderator:

Jason Hsu

July 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

David Petraeus on What Taiwan Can Learn from Ukraine’s Battlefield Experience

General David H. Petraeus (US Army, ret.) will join Hudson’s Jason Hsu for a conversation about what the war in Ukraine has revealed about the future of warfare—and what these lessons mean for Taiwanese security.

Featured Speakers:

Kenneth R. Weinstein

General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.)

Moderator:

Jason Hsu

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July 2025

Past Event

After the 12-Day War: Reassessing Military Power in the Middle East

Featured Speakers:

Michael Doran

Bryan Clark

Can Kasapoğlu

July 2025

Past Event

After the 12-Day War: Reassessing Military Power in the Middle East

Senior Fellows Michael Doran, Bryan Clark, and Can Kasapoğlu will explore the implications of this shift for the United States, Israel, and their partners and discuss how Iran might respond.

Featured Speakers:

Michael Doran

Bryan Clark

Can Kasapoğlu

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July 2025

Past Event

Gazan Humanitarian Foundation Chairman Johnnie Moore on How Food Distribution Could Determine Hamas’s Fate

Featured Speakers:

Johnnie Moore

Nina Shea

July 2025

Past Event

Gazan Humanitarian Foundation Chairman Johnnie Moore on How Food Distribution Could Determine Hamas’s Fate

Reverend Moore will also discuss how the GHF can help distribute UN food aid that is currently sequestered in trucks inside the Gaza strip—a request that the secretary general and his deputy at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have thus far ignored.