Bruce Hoffman is a professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service. He previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency and was director of the RAND Corporation's Washington, D.C. office. He is also Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, Washington, D.C.