A new study aims to push Israel’s security and technology establishment to embrace a new post-October crisis. On September 7, 2023, a business model will be developed that will advance the US-Israel strategic partnership in the heart of the Middle East and around the world.
The Study of the Henry Jackson Society entitled “Israel 2048: A Blueprint for an Emerging Asymmetric Geopolitical Power” jumps into the future, with an eye toward advancing American and Israeli security interests.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, his administration brokered diplomatic normalization deals between Sunni Gulf states and North African countries: Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Sudan and Israel.
Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Seener and co-author David Wurmser argue that there is an urgent need to reframe the US-Israel strategic partnership “around technology” and “shift from military aid dependence to joint R&D and investments in shared technology platforms in defense technology, AI, quantum computing, and next-generation warfighting capabilities.”
They wrote: “Israel should prioritize adopting negotiated technology sharing rules to prevent AI/quantum technology from leaking to China.”
Seener noted that the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy (released in January) describes Israel as a strategic military partner. “That’s never happened before.”
He continued: “Israel is gaining not only regional dominance but also international power by linking trade routes and digital connectivity. Israel simply cannot remain in a purely defensive posture and withdraw and respond to threats on its borders.”
President Donald Trump bids farewell to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he leaves the White House after a meeting on April 7, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Seener said after Israel’s successful air war campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran in June 2025, “America now wants to be part of this success story.”
He argues that President Donald Trump sided with Israel in military strikes because “Israel demonstrated intelligence and military prowess. For the first time, America joined Israel” in prosecuting a war.
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Therefore, Seener said that Israel’s “defense technology makes it indispensable to nations.”
Seener and Wurmser’s 51-page study provides detailed information on how the US can strengthen American security and recommends “entrenching Israel as a defense-tech and deep-tech power indispensable to Western security and global technological competition in supply chains for AI, semiconductors, missile defense, cyber capabilities and critical materials.” Israel’s technological dominance must be leveraged to anchor alliances and shape global supply chains.”
This photo taken from a position in northern Israel shows an Israeli Air Force fighter jet firing flares as it flies to intercept an enemy aircraft over the border area with southern Lebanon on August 25, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
The shakiness of America’s European partners is also highlighted to demonstrate the need for Israel to “accelerate domestic production lines of critical military systems, munitions and energy infrastructure to reduce vulnerability to foreign political pressures, such as Europe’s growing ambivalence coupled with periodic restrictions on arms transfers,” the authors said.
Earlier this month, Britain’s left-wing government reportedly denied the US military’s use of British bases to attack Iran.
Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, recently visited Israel as an official guest of Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Chief of the General Staff. (IDF Spokespersons Unit.)
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Israel is uniquely positioned to help repair relations between Western powers, the study notes. According to the authors, there is an opportunity to “use Israel’s defense technology, quantum computing, AI and cyber capabilities as a tool of statecraft to deepen alliances, discourage political isolation and strengthen influence in Europe, the Gulf and Asia.”
Seener said: “Israel is not a superpower, but a geopolitical power that gives countries a force multiplier, and they benefit from Israel as a technology defense nation.”
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