Bruce Hoff­man is the direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Peace and Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies, direc­tor of the Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies Pro­gram at George­town Uni­ver­si­ty’s Edmund A. Walsh School of For­eign Ser­vice, and a Senior Fel­low at the U.S. Mil­i­tary Acad­e­my’s Com­bat­ing Ter­ror­ism Cen­ter. His pre­vi­ous books include Inside Ter­ror­ism and The Fail­ure of British Mil­i­tary Strat­e­gy with­in Pales­tine, 1939 – 1947.