Danny Leshem is a strategic affairs analyst who served for about twenty years in the IDF Intelligence Branch. After retiring from the army he worked for about five years as a research analyst at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Tel Aviv, where among other things he published a research memorandum entitled Surface-to-Surface Missiles in Iraq, dated November 1990. DL has published a considerable number of professional and op-ed articles which have appeared in Nativ and Politica periodicals and Yediot Aharonot,
The Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz, Ma’ariv and Shishi newspapers.