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Proud🇺🇸✡️ & Zionist. I have been studying terrorism & insurgency for nearly 50 years. Senior fellow at @CFR_org . My own opinions. Retweets not endorsements.

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Bruce Hoffman
11 months
What does "from the river to the sea" really mean? This is a photograph I took on December 30, 2019 when I was briefed by senior officials in the Palestine Authority about relations with Israel. The briefing took place in the PA HQ in Ramallah, Palestine. This map was shown.
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6 years
Why do we treat our closest ally and friend, Canada, so poorly? Canadians fought bravely alongside us most recently in Afganhistan and their CT cooperation with us is as unstinting as it is critical to America’s own security.
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2 years
Take a moment to remember a great American, Kayla Mueller, who 9 years ago today was kidnapped, & ultimately executed by, ISIS. She was a dedicated humanitarian, with an open mind & an enormous heart who only wanted to ease the suffering of others & make the world a better place.
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1 year
Back in 2006, Hezbollah had an arsenal of ~15k missiles (the most sophisticated provided by Iran). Today, it has 10x that number. The danger of a two front war for Israel or perhaps 3-front if the West Bank erupts in violence, begins to assume existential dimensions.
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Bruce Hoffman
11 months
In the week since my article was published, I have heard from Jewish students both at the university I teach at & elsewhere. They report how their professors have singled them out with assignments to "defend Israel's invasion of Gaza" before the class & when they skipped that
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Bruce Hoffman
1 year
Listening to NPR interview again with Amer. U. professor. Gaza also has border crossings with Egypt. Yet, hardly anyone ever mentions that they are closed nor asks why? Because Egypt also considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization & not a "political party" (NPR host's words)
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
FBI special agents, analysts, support operations personnel & others will now have not received a paycheck since before Christmas. The hardship imposed on them is very poor thanks for keeping us safe from terrorists, malevolent hackers, spies, pedophiles, human traffickers, etc.
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FBIAA Pres. @tfoconnor83 - “FBIAA members and others are currently working without pay or paid leave because of a fourth government shutdown in five years. The FBIAA calls on elected officials to work together to end the shutdown and restore Agents’ pay.” (Statement attached.)
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6 years
The other terrorist group we supposedly defeated, hasn't gone away either.
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Bruce Hoffman
5 months
The 168 chairs, with 19 small ones for the kids & babies murdered on April 19, 1995, is among the most moving memorials anywhere to lives senselessly lost because of terrorism. Even more tragically, it was an American who cruelly & mercilessly killed other Americans that day.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Chris Dickey, 1951-2020. Renowned foreign correspondent, accomplished novelist and memoirist, superb photographer, loving husband, devoted father & grandfather. Among the best terrorism analysts I've known--& a cherished friend who will be greatly missed.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
How can it be an intelligence failure when you fail to read your own department's 12-page assessment warning 3 days before 1/6/21 that "Congress could be targeted ... as 'the last opportunity to overturn the results of the presidential election'"?
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Bruce Hoffman
10 months
I had to have armed police present at 2 events I spoke at last week on campuses respectively in the midwest & northeast. They were needed both to protect me & to ensure that protestors did not shut down either. The problem thus goes beyond free speech--regardless of the "evasive"
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Aviva Klompas
10 months
At today's congressional hearing on the shameful surge in campus antisemitism @RepStefanik asks: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your school's code of conduct? President of @MIT : Something something context something something President of @Penn : Something
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
a) FBI Affidavit of MI plot makes for chilling reading (1) 2 ringleaders had mtg at "Liberate Michigan" rally (2) originally 200 armed men would storm state capitol bldg & murder Gov. Whitmer (3) parallel plan to get home addresses & murder police officers . . .
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Bruce Hoffman
1 year
Both the 1988 Hamas Covenant and its successor document, the 2017 Hamas Charter, reveal the movement's objectives and intentions. Hence, Saturday's events should have come as no surprise. My latest analysis in The Atlantic is now live.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
As Clint Watts wrote of the 2016 elections: "The Russians didn't have to hack election machines; they hacked American minds." (cf Messing With the Enemy, p. 156) via @nytimes
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Bruce Hoffman
1 year
2) And terrorists are terrorists when they drag kids & old people from their homes into captivity, strip women naked & rape them & go house to house killing. They are not "militants" (e.g., NY Times banner headline today)
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Bruce Hoffman
1 year
Last Monday I bumped into a former senior US intell officer/past president of a DC think-tank. "Are you still studying terrorism?"--implying that it was yesterday's threat & that I should move on. As today's tragic events show, the threat is worse & more consequential than ever.
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Wonder what vetting is done for foreign military officers training in the US? Up to a DOZEN to be expelled including pedophiles & persons with evidence of "extremist" (terrorist) views—after their buddy murdered killed 3 US sailors in Pensacola last month.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
I am very grateful to the Council on Foreign Relations—and tremendously honored—to have been named the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Visiting Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Terrorist incidents targeting the US Capitol. 1954. 1983. 2001. 2021.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
"America has spent the past two decades trying to root out terrorism around the world . . . Surely we should recognize the tactics of a rogue paramilitary inside our own country." .
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
1) New DHS 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment: "Among DVEs, racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists—specifically white supremacist extremists (WSEs)—will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland."
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
The youngest student in my Terrorism and Homeland Security summer school class. 3 month-old Adam attending my lecture on terrorism, radicalization, and subversion.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
Why must far-right terrorism be taken seriously? Back in the 1980s this movement was the 1st to pioneer 2 of the most consequential trends in terrorism: computers for networking (early 80s) & lone wolf attacks (late 80s). Mass shootings have now materialized. What's next?
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
The latest fashion includes the "6 M W E" (as in "6 Million Weren't Enough") t-shirt with the Proud Boys logo worn at last month's protests in DC and the "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie(with the logo "work brings freedom") spotted at the U.S. Capitol today.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
SPLC reports that # of US hate groups increased for 4th year in a row in 2018, to 1,028--up 7% from 2017 & 30% since 2014. Credits "toxic combination of political polarization, anti-immigrant sentiment & technologies that help spread propaganda online."
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
My analysis of ISIS & the implications of Sunday’s horrific suicide attacks in Sri Lanka is live in today’s issue of the Cipher Brief. ISIS' Shifting Focus
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
This article is terrifying--and completely underscores the seriousness and severity of this horrific disease.
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
My analysis of the El Paso shootings & violent far-right extremism is now live. And, to add some context: I have been studying this phenomenon for nearly four decades. My 1st ever publication, in 1982, was on right-wing terrorism.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 months
More detailed /longer footage of the antisemitic assaults on an elderly Jewish woman and man in the Pico-Robertson area of LA on Sunday.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Brave & hardworking FBI agents, analysts, & support personnel keep Americans safe. They deserve our thanks, not this calumny.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
ISIS was never "defeated." Instead its fighters followed Sun Tzu's dictum to disappear and re-surface at a time and places of its choosing (e.g., ERV & around Kirkuk) to again become threatening & consequential. &
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
There was a time when such things were unthinkable in a democracy. In DC & Vienna, we are learning they are not. "The alarms are going off,” one senior European intelligence official said. “What happened in Austria reminds me of what autocrats would do.”
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Immensely valuable dispatch from a friend and colleague who was stricken with this horrific virus. Read through all these posts about his ordeal and heed his advice. Thank you, Shiraz. Glad you are better. Best wishes for a speedy, total recovery.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Only the US Secretary of State can designate a terrorist organization—& it is a foreign, not a domestic designation. antifa is also a dubious candidate since it is not an organization & has no identifiable leaders, C2 structure, or finances to target.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
How many nonagenarians are still writing books—and, indeed seminal ones, on terrorism? Only one. The incomparable, indefatigable, legendary Walter Laqueur. Coming soon—and co-authored with my former SSP student, Chris Wall.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
The AIVD (Dutch intelligence & security service) has long been among among the best in business with respect to CT. The disruption of a major terrorist attack in the Netherlands again underscores a continuing threat.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
"More than a 1/4 of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly 1 in 4 said Jews have too much influence in conflict & wars across the world." More astonishing: 1 in 20 have never heard of the Holocaust.
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Inside Terrorism (1998, 2006, & 2017) is listed as one of the 25 "Notable Books" published by Columbia University Press during its 125 year-long history.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
"The Capitol assault resulted in one of the worst days of injuries for law enforcement in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. At least 138 officers — 73 from the Capitol Police and 65 from the [MPD] in Washington — were injured."
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
"The vandalism...may be linked to COVID-19 conspiracy theories that 5G cellular technology is responsible for spreading through radio waves the pathogens that cause the virus"--with thanks to my former SSP student, Scott K.
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Bruce Hoffman
7 years
Who knew: 7 years after UBL’s killing, al Qaeda can boast of 30-40k fighters in some 2 dozen franchises. See my new CFR “Expert’s Brief” on al Qaeda’s resurrection at
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
For Americans, a day to give thanks to our Intelligence Community for speaking truth to power; the FBI for keeping us safe from pedophiles, terrorists, & other criminals; & the women & men of our armed forces who are still fighting the WoT & defending us from all other threats.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
My thoughts on why a bi-partisan commission to investigate the events of Jan. 6 is needed--with relevant lessons from the gold standard of them all, the 9/11 Commission.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
On Saturday @nytimes described leftist Germans who mostly targeted elites during the cold war as "terrorists." But labeled those who yesterday killed "mothers, babies, [&] medical workers" in Afghanistan as "militants" & "insurgents."
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
Walter Laqueur is among the last of a generation that grew up in abject sorrow but nonetheless tried to build a better world. Perhaps fittingly, the title of his penultimate book was “Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist” (2017).
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Every edition of Inside Terrorism since it was first published 21 years ago has focused on the threat of violent far-right extremism in the US & Europe. See pp. 107-127 of the 3rd edition to understand its increasingly violent trajectory in the US from the early 1980s to today.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
In recent weeks, serious plots or attempts to attack a hospital in Missouri, a hospital ship in California, and, a Jewish assisted living home in Massachusetts have either been foiled or failed. As this DHS memo warns, more are likely to follow.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
What accounts for the demoralization of the Afghan security forces? What conclusion do you think they reached 2 years ago when Pres. Trump proposed to host Taliban leaders at Camp David--just days before the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks?
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Russ Travers, the highly respected former acting director of the NCTC, paints an alarming picture of the rising threat from violent far-right extremists and the potential for post-election violence.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
Just as the Red Army's 1989 withdrawal from Afghanistan inspired bin Laden to focus his energies & attention on the other superpower/far enemy (cf. his 10/29/2004 video), this too will inspire a new generation of Salafi-Jihadi terrorists--& more violence.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
I admire the WaPo for not forgetting about Afghanistan and the suffering of its people. In addition to 2 front page stories (including the lead today), there are 4 more pages of coverage. By comparison, one article, on p. 12, in today's NYT
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Bruce Hoffman
11 months
Nearly 50 years of studying terrorism has taught me that the terrorists' worst enemies are always moderates & those who work for peace--sadly just like Ms. Silver. May her memory be a blessing.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
Fortuitously just bumped into @selectedwisdom at the airport (where else?) and he very kindly gave me a copy of his new book. Hard to think of a more timely book given today’s news.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Note the sentencing disparity between the US far-right extremist "arrested on gun charges last year [who] was given 12 months behind bars" and the research by @gwupoe revealing the average sentence for ISIS supporters convicted in US courts of 13.4 years.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
My thoughts on yesterday's shameful and tragic events are now live at .
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Announcing The Hoffman Group: uniquely addressing the educational, operational and leadership needs of law enforcement, corporate & private security, the intelligence community, and the military. See our new web site at:
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Terrorism studies mostly ignores events that happened < 9/11. I am therefore deeply honored to deliver at St Andrews Univ later today the 7th Carnegie Lecture when I will discuss an enormously consequential, but long forgotten, assassination that occurred 75 years ago yesterday.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
"..the strongest state in the international order let itself be swindled by a terrorist organization. Because we so clearly wanted out of Afghanistan, we agreed to disreputable terms, and then proceeded to pretend that the Taliban were meeting even those."
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Bruce Hoffman
10 months
Empires & colonialism are woven into the history of mankind. They are not exclusively a product of the West & nor did they only exist after the 18th-Century--contrary to what this article implies. The Ottoman Empire ruled over today's Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon,
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Bruce Hoffman
2 years
"While Russia gets weaker, Ukraine gets stronger: It now has more tanks than at the start of the war, much better artillery & far more weapons systems of all kinds. Russian morale is poor...Ukrainian morale is sky-high."
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Bruce Hoffman
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Important CSIS report by @SethGJones & his team on domestic terrorism incidents thus far this year. Data on the increased targeting by both sides of peaceful demonstrators & protestors exercising their constitutional rights is especially disquieting.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
“'He hasn’t just humiliated America’s Afghan allies',” said Rory Stewart, a former British cabinet minister with lengthy experience in Afghanistan. 'He’s humiliated his Western allies by demonstrating their impotence'.”
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Bruce Hoffman
2 years
It's called seditious conspiracy.
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Bruce Hoffman
10 months
Just arrived! Thank you to ⁦ @caelyncobb ⁩ and Columbia Univ. Press, my publisher for over a quarter-of-century now, for publishing it.
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
Last night my MA class rebelled. They said the novel pedagogy I was told was essential to teach in a digital realm creates stress for them rather than enhances learning. They said they wanted to return to traditional lecture & discussion. We did. They were happy. Lesson learned.
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Will Baghdadi's death facilitate the reunification of al-Qaeda with ISIS? Qaeda has been consolidating its position in Syria via its local stalking horse, Hurras al-Din. With no clear ISIS heir apparent, a voluntary merger with Qaeda or absorption of remaining ISIS is plausible.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
Fascinating that in yesterday's long litany of who is to blame for the Taliban's rapid re-conquest of Aghanistan that Pakisan was not mentioned even once.
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Bruce Hoffman
8 years
The 3rd, completely revised & updated, edition of Inside Terrorism is done. Coming in 2017 from Columbia U. Press.
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Bruce Hoffman
8 years
This is when it starts to feel real. Final cover design for third edition of Inside Terrorism. Publication this August.
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Bruce Hoffman
11 months
The new curriculum at America's universities--which is entirely predictable when students get their news from TikTok .
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Bruce Hoffman
1 year
1) A reporter told me they are receiving hate mail because of being too "pro-Israel" in describing yesterday's attack. I asked if they have ever gotten hate mail for being too "pro-British" or "pro-Spanish" or "pro-Thai." Innocent civilians are innocent civilians, full stop.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
THIS IS THE REALITY: "growing reports of detentions, disappearances and even executions of officials at the hands of the Taliban...as [part of] a covert & sometimes deadly pursuit of the Taliban's enemies." From the front page of today's NYT.
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
Typically incisive analysis by @kgilsinan , this time on the Afghanistan deal. The problem is no Taliban renounciation of AQ, only a pledge not to let them use Afghanistan to attack the US or our allies. The Taliban, BTW, promised the same before 9/11.
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Bruce Hoffman
2 years
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympics massacre. It was among the most consequential terrorist attacks in history (as Inside Terrorism explains). It was also the reason I became interested in the study of terrorism & counterterrorism.
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Bruce Hoffman
2 years
Look at the caption of this photo on p. 2 of today's WaPo. Does US SOF really "provide military training" to the PKK--a group listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Dept since 1997??? I think/hope that it is the Kurdish forces in the YPG or SDF.
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Bruce Hoffman
2 years
"We cannot live in a world where an evil dictator can redraw international borders at will with threats of nuclear annihilation. And we don’t have to." ⁦ @MaxBoot ⁩ in today's WaPo
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Bruce Hoffman
4 years
“They Were Not Simply Names on a List. They Were Us.”
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Bruce Hoffman
5 years
As we hunker down in the comfort of our homes/virtual offices to tele-commute & work remotely we should be immensely thankful for our fellow citizens in federal, state, local law enforcement; other 1st responders; & those in the intelligence community who do not have this option
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Bruce Hoffman
10 months
When we tried to get this published right after the 10/7 attacks, we were told that the "narrative had shifted" & it was therefore rejected by all mainstream media. Only a German-language Jewish newspaper, Tachles, & the USMA's Irregular Warfare Initiative published it. Hamas has
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"Hamas’s deliberate attack on Israeli civilians was designed to maximize death and destruction, intending not just to terrorize the population but ethnically cleanse the land of Jews." With @hoffman_bruce and @vardy_cooper in @IrregWarfare .
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
The Taliban lies. Plain & simple. A family with valid documentation were recently, finally, able to flee after multiple attempts at 2 different airports. Every time they attempted to depart, the father was beaten in front of his family by the Taliban: solely for wanting to leave.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
As Churchill once observed: “The truth is incontrovertible; panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may destroy it, but there it is.” In these perilous times, we have to ensure that it not only survives but surmounts the assaults against it.
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Bruce Hoffman
10 months
Pres. Biden: "Let me be crystal clear: Hamas’ refusal to release the remaining young women is what broke this deal and ended the pause in the fighting. These women and everyone still being held hostage by Hamas need to be returned to their families immediately."
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Bruce Hoffman
7 years
One of the longstanding pathologies of CT is that we tend only to pay attention to successful terrorist attacks and not take sufficiently seriously the implications & reverse forensic possibilities of failed or thwarted ones.
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Bruce Hoffman
3 months
The scholarly journal that I edit, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, is again ranked number 1 in google's h-5 Military Studies category—& equally impressively— number 10 in the Diplomacy & International Relations category
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
My article, "How Serious Is White Nationalist Terrorism," written in Q&A format, is now live on the site
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Bruce Hoffman
3 years
Delighted that Studies in Conflict & Terrorism is #2 behind the prestigious International Security in Google Scholar's ranking of scholarly journals in the Military Studies sub-field. All credit to our excellent contributors & the dedicated members of our editorial board.
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
Can it get any worse than nearly losing the commander of US & NATO forces in Afghanistan to a Taliban blue-on-blue attack that kills the Kandahar police chief upon whom the security of the country's impending elections in part depended?
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Bruce Hoffman
6 years
“We have a long history of underestimating groups like ISIS. If history is a guide, we should expect that the organization will both rebound and metastasize. . . We’re not fighting a bunch of guys in a cave,” @rcallimachi
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