In cooperation with the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, I published a policy memo, mapping out the rerouting methods Hezbollah has been engaged in to make use of $1 Billion annual budget, since early 2025, in a desperate attempt to reconstruct its military wing, following the IDF’s massive decapitation operation in late 2024. Relevant countermeasures are suggested to help policymakers combat the organization’s force buildup.

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝘇𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗵 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻? Recently, I was honored to participate in a meaningful initiative — a small but 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.

For the past forty years, the Syria–Hizballah relationship stood on its own merits, and as evident by Hizballah’s military involvement in the Syrian war in the last decade, Assad’s regime still had some Hizballah debt notes left to redeem. Notwithstanding, the academic research focused primarily on Iran’s relationship with Hizballah…