{"id":27539,"date":"2026-10-21T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/?p=27539"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:00:21","slug":"strategic-perception-and-strategic-complementarity-rethinking-greek-israeli-strategic-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/strategic-perception-and-strategic-complementarity-rethinking-greek-israeli-strategic-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Perception and Strategic Complementarity: Rethinking Greek-Israeli Strategic Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Michail Mandalas, Analyst KEDISA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greece and Israel have progressively moved beyond conventional bilateral defence cooperation toward a broader strategic relationship encompassing defence technology, infrastructure, energy, regional connectivity and political coordination. The August 2026 \u201cAchilles Shield\u201d agreement, valued at approximately \u20ac3 billion, represents the most substantial defence agreement in the history of Greek-Israeli relations. It provides for a multilayered air-defence architecture based on Israeli systems, including David\u2019s Sling, SPYDER and BARAK MX, alongside command-and-control capabilities, industrial cooperation and technological knowledge transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ergasia_No_143_Mandalas.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27234\" src=\"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KEDISA-2-1-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KEDISA-2-1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KEDISA-2-1-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KEDISA-2-1-585x333.jpg 585w, https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KEDISA-2-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michail Mandalas, Analyst KEDISA &nbsp; Greece and Israel have progressively moved beyond conventional bilateral&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":545,"featured_media":27431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27576,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27539\/revisions\/27576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}