Bruce Hoffman
Recent articles by Bruce Hoffman
Plan of Attack
The United States is not just facing an insurgency in Iraq—it's facing "netwar," the newest kind.
Aftermath
In Jerusalem cleaning up after a suicide bombing is business as usual.
The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
First you feel nervous about riding the bus. Then you wonder about going to a mall. Then you think twice about sitting for long at your favorite café. Then nowhere seems safe. Terrorist groups have a strategy—to shrink to nothing the areas in which people move freely—and suicide bombers, inexpensive and reliably lethal, are their latest weapons. Israel has learned to recognize and disrupt the steps on the path to suicide attacks. We must learn too.
The Leadership Secrets of Osama bin Laden
The terrorist as CEO.
A Nasty Business
Gathering "good intelligence" against terrorists is an inherently brutish enterprise, involving methods a civics class might not condone. Should we care?
One-Alarm Fire
U.S. counterterrorism may be overly preoccupied with biological weapons—which have a rather poor track record.
All You Need Is Love
How the terrorists stopped terrorism.