Raphael BenLevi is director of the Churchill Program for Strategy, Statesmanship and National Security at the Argaman Institute of Tikvah Fund Israel. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa and lectures at the IDF Military Command Academy. He has been a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, a fellow at the INSS and at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem. His research explores the influence of worldviews on strategic thinking in Israel and in the United States and has been published in the academic journals the Texas National Security Review and Comparative Strategy as well as by Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Jerusalem Post, White Rose Magazine and the Tikvah Fund’s Hebrew-language journal, Hashiloach.