Bruce Hoffman

Bruce Hoffman is a professor at Georgetown University and the director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies. He is a contributing editor to The National Interest.

Essays

Security

American Jihad

| 04.20.10

Al-Qaeda has accomplished the unthinkable: establishing an embryonic recruitment, radicalization and operational capacity on our shores. Our current strategy risks another 9/11.

Security

Cell Phones in the Hindu Kush

| 06.24.08

Al-Qaeda’s resurgent and it’s putting itself back together on the Afghan-Pakistan border. How are U.S. efforts stacking up? A trip to the region.

Security

Making the Grade: From A to F, How the U.S. Measures Up in its Struggle Against Global Extremism

| 02.29.08

The results are in. Did the United States pass the test? Leading terrorism experts hand in their marks on U.S. efforts.

Reviews

Security

Al Qaeda Rises in Yemen's Chaos

| 01.02.13

How the deadly offshoot of the infamous terror group got its start.

Security

The Age of Woman

| 01.21.09

Can women keep us safe? For all the talk of a rise of women to positions of power, there is still a dearth of the female perspective in national security. With the unprecedented appointment of three women to some of the highest posts in the new ad

Commentary

Security

Bin Laden's Death Shatters Conventional Wisdom

| 05.02.11

Why bin Laden's death may not make us safer.

Society

American Jihad, Part II

| 07.21.10

We are stumbling blindly through the minefield of countering terrorist radicalization and recruitment inside the United States.

Security

How to Win Afghanistan

| 10.08.09

Drone attacks alone won’t work. We need boots on the ground to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Security

Why We Can't Leave

| 09.25.09

A top terrorism expert argues against the rising calls for a rapid U.S. departure from Afghanistan. Otherwise we risk another major al-Qaeda attack.

Security

Econo-Jihad

| 05.13.09

Al-Qaeda has long sought to bankrupt America. With the economic crisis in full swing, they might start targeting our financial assets.

Blog Posts

Society

In Memoriam: Stephen J. Cannell, 1941-2010

| 10.04.10

Remembering the man that brought us The Rockford Files and The A-Team.

Security

How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away?

| 10.01.10

Reports of al-Qaeda's demise--like those of Mark Twain's death--have been greatly exaggerated.

Security

The New Amnesia

| 09.29.10

What were we really thinking and feeling those first few weeks after 9/11?

Security

Where's the Beef?

| 09.23.10

Everyone agrees America must do more to protect itself from homegrown terrorist threats. So why aren't we?

Security

Thinking Outside the Box

| 09.20.10

The NYPD is coming at the terrorism problem in new and counterintuitive ways. The Beltway is stuck in old patterns and old thinking.