Lecture
Robert Fox
Monday 30.03.2026
Robert Fox
Rules of Engagement and Disengagement
Monday 30.03.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 30 March at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
How to resolve the first gamified war—plans, end games, and exit strategies. This is the first war in which AI has been used extensively and the rhetoric of video games is used by one side, the Trump Team, to explain and report its actions. But what of the deadly game for identity and survival on the ground? How will it end for Israel and Iran and the vital ground of the Gulf and the Levant (the Eastern Mediterranean).
This is yet another war to reshape the Middle East, which has been occurring every two decades since 1948. But will it reshape the Middle East? This is a challenge at every level, historical and geographical.
Robert Fox
Robert Fox has been a professional reporter, commentator, author, and broadcaster for over 40 years. He has reported from the front in the Falklands conflict of 1982, the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. After leaving Oxford with an honors degree in history in 1967, he has worked as a staff reporter and correspondent for the BBC and the Daily Telegraph. He is currently defense correspondent for the Evening Standard and broadcasts frequently for the BBC, Sky, and Radio 24 in Italy. Among his books are Eyewitness Falklands (1982), Antarctica and the South Atlantic (1985), and Camera in Conflict(1995). Robert lectures frequently to the British Army and the diplomatic community in London. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House.