Guy
Hazoot
The book that predicted the war
From the Front Lines to the Front Page
Brigadier General (Res.) Guy Hazoot rose through the ranks as a combat commander in the Paratroopers Brigade, commanded a division, and served as Defense Attaché to Singapore. He commanded the Ground Forces' Operational Learning Directorate during the Iron Swords War.
He is the author of New Guard, No Guard-the Israeli military bestseller that anticipated October 7th and won the 2024 Stephen Moldovan Award for Military Literature. Currently a Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel Aviv University. He holds advanced degrees in Security and International Relations from the University of London, the University of Haifa, and the National Security College. He is married and a father of four.
Full Biography
New Guard No Guard
A rigorous, courageous, and prophetic analysis of how Israel's military prioritized technological supremacy over ground-force capability-and the catastrophic price that was paid on October 7th, 2023.
Written before the attack, the book was already in bookstores when the October 7th massacre occurred. It immediately became the most discussed military book in Israel-a document of institutional failure and a roadmap for recovery.
Some books begin as warnings. Very few survive long enough to become road maps. This book does both.— John Spencer
International Endorsements
"Much of the conventional thinking about future war is superficial and flawed. In New Guard No Guard, Brigadier General Guy Hazoot provides a corrective to that thinking-drawing on personal experience and a deep understanding of history."H.R. McMaster, Lt. Gen. (USA, ret.) Former U.S. National Security Advisor | Author of Dereliction of Duty & Battlegrounds Read Full Endorsement ↗
"Hazoot reminds me of Carl von Clausewitz in the way that matters most-he writes from defeat, with the conviction that institutions can recover. This is essential reading for anyone who thinks seriously about war."John Spencer Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Modern War Institute, West Point
Featured Podcast
Urban Warfare Project Podcast: "Learning at the Speed of Urban Warfare"
Guy Hazoot joins host John Spencer-the same West Point scholar who called New Guard No Guard "essential reading"-to break down how he built and ran the IDF's operational lessons-learned center within 48 hours of October 7th, turning real-time lessons from forces fighting in Gaza and Lebanon into urgent doctrine on tunnels, booby traps, and combined-arms warfare.
Listen on MWI →Areas of Expertise
National Security
Strategy, defense doctrine, and international relations
Leadership
Combat leadership and leadership in complex organizations
Israeli Society & Identity
Israeli society, civil-military relations, and ethics in combat
Organizational Culture That Wins
Institutional learning, adaptation, and lessons learned
Modern Land Warfare
Force design, operations, innovation, and technology
Strategic Foresight
Strategic assessment, future threats, and long-range planning
Intelligence Failure & Strategic Blindness
Cognitive bias, systemic blindness, and October 7
International Affairs
Military diplomacy and geopolitics
Leadership | Ethics | Organizational Culture | 7/10
Talks are designed for organizations, conferences, companies, educational institutions and pre-military academies.
Talks & Lectures
- ▸ Win and Remain Human-Ethics in Combat
- ▸ Leadership and the Israeli Code
- ▸ The Winner Is Who Wins the Learning Race
- ▸ How Israel Walked Blindly into October 7th