This Policy Focus presents the highlights of The Washington Institute's Conference on Strategy and Defense in the Eastern Mediterranean, held in Jerusalem, July 9-11, 1986.
More than fifty American and Israeli policymakers, journalists and military analysts attended the conference, which was the first academic gathering to examine the development of U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation and the role that relationship plays in both regional and strategic deterrence. The conference itself was hosted jointly by the Institute and the Israeli Military Correspondents Association, chaired by Hirsh Goodman.
For three days prior to the conference, 11 American national security correspondents and strategic studies experts toured Israeli military installations and received briefings from Israel's military and political leadership.
