“Is the Age of International Alliances Over”? – On the Ukrainian War
Israel Hayom
Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan
“Orbach’s book pulls off the difficult trick of talking to two audiences at once. Those only casually familiar with Japanese history will appreciate how thoroughly Orbach demolishes the hoary orientalist trope that Japanese soldiers were insect-like drones, mindlessly obedient to state propaganda. Specialists will be more interested in Orbach’s answer to what is still for many the great question of modern Japanese history: why did the country embark on a disastrous war of aggression in the mid-twentieth century?…. Orbach’s book is not just an important contribution to the historiography of Japan; it adds a key piece to the puzzle of understanding state-military relations across the global nineteenth century.”
― Pacific Affairs
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War
Shrouded in government secrecy, clouded by myths and propaganda, the enigmatic tale of Nazi fugitives in the early Cold War has never been properly told—until now.
Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality
Current Project
“Let the Commander Respond”: The Paradox of Obedience in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (with Ziv Bohrer)
Orbach, Danny., & Bohrer, Ziv. (2023). “Let the Commander Respond”: The Paradox of Obedience in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Law and History Review, 1-23. doi:10.1017/S0738248023000391
From Deception to Mass Murder: Operation Mole and the Kafr Qasim Massacre Reconsidered (with Yagil Henkin)
Yagil Henkin, Danny Orbach “From Deception to Mass Murder: Operation Mole and the Kafr Qasim Massacre Reconsidered”, Journal of Military History . Apr2023, Vol. 87 Issue 2, p438-470
Former Nazis in German Intelligence Politics: The Exposure of Moles and Reckless Decision Making, 1959–1962
Danny Orbach (2023) Former Nazis in German Intelligence Politics: The Exposure of Moles and Reckless Decision Making, 1959–1962, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 36:1, 20-40
The Military-Adventurous Complex: Officers, adventurers, and Japanese expansion in East Asia, 1884–1937
ORBACH, D. (2019). The Military-Adventurous Complex: Officers, adventurers, and Japanese expansion in East Asia, 1884–1937. Modern Asian Studies, 53(2), 339-376. doi:10.1017/S0026749X17000543
Irregular Warfare in Late Medieval Japan: Towards a Historical Understanding of the “Ninja” (with Polina Serebriakova)
Serebriakova, P., & Orbach, D. (2020). Irregular Warfare in Late Medieval Japan: Towards a Historical Understanding of the “Ninja”. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY, 84(4), 997-1020.
Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right-Wing Terrorists, 1878–1936
Orbach, Danny. “Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right-Wing Terrorists, 1878–1936.” Asian Studies (2018)