Andrew Fox joins Live From The Table to talk about personal courage, Gaza, Hamas casualty numbers, Israel’s military strategy, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and what modern war actually looks like.

Andrew Fox is a former British Army officer (three tours in Afghanistan), now a senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank. Fox has been to the frontlines in Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine. He wrote the first papers worldwide exposing the Hamas fatality figures manipulation in Gaza and showing how Israel actually fought on the ground in Gaza from a tactical perspective.

0:00 Intro

1:00 Serving in Afghanistan

4:00 Looking back on the war

7:30 Hamas casualty numbers in Gaza

10:00 Why Andrew looked into the numbers

12:00 Hamas figures, IDF figures, and media coverage

15:30 Civilian casualties and Hamas’s strategy

18:15 Child fighters and Hamas

19:25 Why Andrew speaks up for Israel and Jews

22:00 Problems inside the IDF

28:40 Iran and the wider war

31:50 Why stopping Iran’s nuclear program matters

37:30 Strait of Hormuz

42:00 What kind of Iran deal would make sense?

47:20 Why this is different from the JCPOA

54:00 Gaza casualty ratios and urban war

57:00 Was the Gaza war worth it?

1:02:00 Why Israel went into Gaza first

1:04:30 Final thoughts