Dr. Eitan Shamir is Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center) and head of the MA program in Security and Strategy in the Political Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University. Prior to taking up his academic position, he was in charge of the National Security Doctrine Department at the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office. Before joining the Ministry, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies (CIMS) at IDF General Headquarters.

Dr. Shamir’s research interests and publications focus on military strategy, command, and innovation. He is the author of Transforming Command: The Pursuit of Mission Command in the US, UK and Israeli Armies (2011) as well as the editor (with Beatrice Heuser) of Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: National Styles and Strategic Cultures (2017). His forthcoming books (2023) are The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the IDF (with Edward Luttwak) and Moshe Dayan: The Making of a Strategist (Hebrew). Dr. Shamir holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.