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Bruce hoffmans book about jewish terrorism against the british mandate in palestine concludes that terrorism was an effective weapon for the zionist cause and helped. More details about the book and the award are here. In anonymous soldiers, bruce hoffman, the dean of counterterrorist scholars, explores the history and methods that would become the template for terrorist movements of the present day. In anonymous soldiers, he uses jewish groups that employed what would. Anonymous soldiers by bruce hoffman overdrive rakuten.
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He is a tenured professor in georgetown universitys edmund a. Bruce hoffman born 1954 is a political analyst specializing in the study of terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency he is a tenured professor at georgetown universitys edmund a. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in london, washington, d. The struggle for israel, 19171947, the author is careful to state, near the end of the work, that terrorism can, in the right conditions and with the appropriate strategy and tactics, succeed in attaining at least some of its practitioners fundamental aims. The struggle for israel, 19171947, by bruce hoffman. Although this well researched book based on primary sources claims to cover. Bruce hoffman, the director of the center for security studies at georgetown university and a senior fellow at the united states military academys combating terrorism center, uses.
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