Yonatn Kraaijenhagen

Co-Founder

Netanya, Center District, Israel27 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in military strategy and operational analysis.
  • Extensive international mission experience across multiple regions.
  • Strong focus on the intersection of politics and military reality.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Defence and Security Analyst with a strong military background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Defence AnalysisMilitary StrategyMilitary

Other Skills

Operational assessmentCrisis managementStrategic planningDisaster responseAuditingRampenresponsBedrijfsprocesplanning

About

I provide independent analysis on defence and military strategy, with a focus on the Middle East. My work examines the gap between political narratives, media framing, and operational reality, particularly in contexts of deterrence, asymmetric warfare, and non-state actors. The emphasis is on strategic consequences, military logic, and second-order effects often overlooked in public debate. Commentary is concise and direct; irony is used sparingly to expose contradictions without compromising analytical rigor. Selected Operational and Strategic Experience • Deployed on international missions including Afghanistan, Albania, Cambodia, Haiti, Lebanon, and Syria. • Served in senior and specialized roles, including Intelligence Officer in the Caribbean and South America, and as H-OPCEN at the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) of the Netherlands Ministry of Defence, contributing to crisis management, operational coordination, and strategic planning.

Experience

Independent / self-employed

Independent Defence & Security Analyst Public Commentary | Strategic & Operational Analysis

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Israel - Hybrid / On location · Hybrid

  • Independent analysis of defence and security developments, with a primary focus on the Middle East.
  • Providing strategic and operational assessment of military conflicts, state and non-state actors, deterrence dynamics, asymmetric warfare, and information operations.
  • Public commentary aimed at clarifying the gap between political narratives, media framing, and operational reality.
Defence analysisMilitary strategyOperational assessmentCrisis managementStrategic planning

Sabbatical & travel

Semi Retired

Jul 2023Oct 2023 · 3 mos · Netanya Central District, ISR

Axxicom airport caddy b.v.

Bulmor Ambulift Driver & Passengers Assistance Schiphol Airport

Nov 2022Jul 2023 · 8 mos · Schiphol, The Netherlands

Disaster response

Sabbatical & travel

Semi Retired

Nov 2021Oct 2022 · 11 mos · Amsterdam Area

Dutch military intelligence and security service (mivd)

H-OPCEN MIVD

Apr 2018Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Frederikkazerne Den Haag

MilitaryAuditing

Dmo

Team leader SAPTM

Sep 2014Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Jfc naples

J5 plans

Jun 2013Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Naples, Campania, Italy

Nato trainings mission afghanistan (ntm-a)

Head Assessment NTM-A police training (AFG)

Nov 2012Apr 2013 · 5 mos · Kabul AFG

Dbbo

Region CDR West DBBO

Dec 2009Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Utrecht, Noord- en Zuid Holland, Aruba en Curaçao · Hybrid

  • Responsible for the physical security of all Dutch Defense locations in the Dutch provinces of Utrecht, North and South Holland and the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

Doc

Frontdesk Uruzgan DOPS J3

Aug 2007Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Den Haag

Mivd

LOMIVD Dutch Antilles islands & Aruba

Jun 2004Jun 2007 · 3 yrs · Curacao

Def crisis beheersings centrum (dcbc)

Senior Duty Officer OPCEN DCBC

Jul 2002Jun 2004 · 1 yr 11 mos · Den Haag

Mariniers kazerne savaneta (msksav)

First Officer (XO) MSKSAV

Jun 1999Jun 2002 · 3 yrs · Aruba

Operatie "allied harbour"

Location CDR 'Durres'

Apr 1999Jun 1999 · 2 mos · Albanië

Unmih

Ops officier / XO Det Haïti II

Oct 1995Mar 1996 · 5 mos · Jacmel, Département du Sud-Est, Haiti

Untac

Intell Officer S2, MARNSBAT Cambodja 3

Jun 1992Nov 1992 · 5 mos · Sisophon, Cambodia

Untso

Military Observer UNTSO, Lebanon, Syria

Apr 1991Mar 1992 · 11 mos · South Lebanon, Beirut, Syria (Golan Heights)

Education

Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine (KIM)

Officer RNLMC / International Relations and Politics

Jan 1980Jan 1986

Norwegian Winter Warfare School Elverum

Cold Weather Trained

Jan 1985Feb 1985

CTCRM Lympstone

RM COMMANDO

Sep 1984Nov 1984

Luftlande-/Lufttransportschule Altenstad

Fallschirmspringer

May 1984May 1984

POTOM

Officier der mariniers — Korps Mariniers

Jan 1980Jan 1981

Baarnsch Lyceum

Jan 1973Jan 1980

Axxicom rijopleiding

Bulmor Sidebull Ambulift

Mar 2023Present

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