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Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen

Senior Director

Shoshana Bryen is Senior Director of The Jewish Policy Center and Editor of inFOCUS Quarterly. A leading specialist in U.S. defense policy and Middle East affairs, she is the former Executive Director and Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA. She has worked with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and lectured at the National Defense University in Washington.

Mrs. Bryen coordinated programs in the Middle East for military professionals that allowed more than 450 American military officers to engage in professional discussions of issues that both unite and divide the United States, Israel, and Jordan. She also created a program to take the cadets and midshipmen of America’s service academies to Israel for a three-week work/study program that has permitted hundreds of future officers to have a positive, in-depth experience in Israel. She has taken Turkish and Israeli military officers to speak at the service academies and has lectured in the academies as well.

She runs a weekly webinar series for the Jewish Policy Center and her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Daily Caller, the New York Sun and Defense News, among other outlets.

Mrs. Bryen is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Aleethia Foundation that provides opportunities for wounded veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and is a Member of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Committee.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (202) 638-2411
Twitter: @ShoshanaBryen

Articles By Shoshana Bryen

Israel: A Security Asset for the United States

October 7, 2026

One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that US-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial, and… Read More

Mali Falls, Israel Fights: The West’s Choice

May 4, 2026

The government of Mali was overthrown last week by ISIS, working in cooperation with local groups. The context is a bit of a winding road…. Read More

Are We Paying Attention to Iran’s Strategy?

April 22, 2026

Far too much attention has been given to President Donald Trump’s strategy in the current conflict, and far too little to that of the Islamic… Read More