Revising the National Security Concept

Revising the National Security Concept:

The Need for a Strategy of Multidisciplinary Impact

by Udi Dekel and Omer Einav, INSS

The Israeli government has not yet found the right way to revise the state’s traditional national security concept, which is affected by the significant decline in military threats, and adapt it to current and future challenges. The objective of the revised strategy for promoting Israel’s interests and political-security goals is to generate influence in areas beyond the state’s borders, through policy based on multidisciplinary efforts.

Action should be taken to achieve maximum influence in the strategic environment through the use of diverse tools at various levels, including: (a) direct access to the enemy population through public diplomacy,with the help of the new media and humanitarian assistance; (b) instruments of soft power, such as information warfare, economic leverage, legal means, political subversion tools, water and energy arrangements, security and technological aid, and private market and civilian initiatives; (c) cooperation with actors with interests overlapping those of Israel; (d) cyber warfare; and (e) construction of a legal and public relations apparatus aimed at reducing Israel’s isolation in the international arena, the damage to its legitimacy, and the restrictions and sanctions against it.

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