https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Bruce_Hoffman&feed=atom&action=historyBruce Hoffman - Revision history2024-03-28T10:00:24ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Bruce_Hoffman&diff=203644&oldid=prevMelissa Jones: /* Advising the Occupation in Iraq */2014-11-23T23:55:56Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Advising the Occupation in Iraq</span></span></p>
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</table>Melissa Joneshttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Bruce_Hoffman&diff=178643&oldid=prevMatthew Pringle: Israeli Think Tanker category added2012-11-13T14:38:15Z<p>Israeli Think Tanker category added</p>
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</table>Matthew Pringlehttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Bruce_Hoffman&diff=126264&oldid=prevTom Griffin: added category CPA Iraq2010-07-25T22:02:15Z<p>added category CPA Iraq</p>
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</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Bruce_Hoffman&diff=126259&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* Advising the Occupation in Iraq */2010-07-25T21:57:53Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Advising the Occupation in Iraq</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hoffman had compared American imperialism with its British predecessor in his early writings. In 1983 Bar-Ilan University Press published Hoffman’s book ''The failure of British military strategy within Palestine, 1939-1947''. A year later he compared the British colonial experience with the American presence in Lebanon in a RAND report he authored called ''The siege mentality in Beirut: an historical analogy between the British in Palestine and the Americans in Lebanon''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hoffman had compared American imperialism with its British predecessor in his early writings. In 1983 Bar-Ilan University Press published Hoffman’s book ''The failure of British military strategy within Palestine, 1939-1947''. A year later he compared the British colonial experience with the American presence in Lebanon in a RAND report he authored called ''The siege mentality in Beirut: an historical analogy between the British in Palestine and the Americans in Lebanon''.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hoffman was adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq during the spring of 2004. From 2004-2005 he was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad.<ref>Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, [http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/brh6/?PageTemplateID=81 FACULTY & STAFF: Bruce Hoffman]</ref> Hoffman <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">argued </del>that the occupation strategy can be successful <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">only </del>if it adopts a British <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">colonial </del>model of counter-insurgency<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, comparable to perspectives in </del>[[Frank Kitson]]'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s </del>Low Intensity Operations. Hoffman had compared American <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Imperialism </del>with its British predecessor in his early writings. In 1983 Bar-Ilan University Press published Hoffman’s book ''The failure of British military strategy within Palestine, 1939-1947''. A year later he compared the British colonial experience with the American presence in Lebanon in a RAND report he authored called ''The siege mentality in Beirut: an historical analogy between the British in Palestine and the Americans in Lebanon''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hoffman was adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq during the spring of 2004. From 2004-2005 he was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad.<ref>Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, [http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/brh6/?PageTemplateID=81 FACULTY & STAFF: Bruce Hoffman]</ref> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In a 2005 article, British academics Jonny Burnett and Dave Whyte notes that:</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">During his period of office Hoffman authored a paper, published by [[terrorexpertise:RAND Corporation|RAND]], which provides a marker for the strategic advice he was providing to the occupation forces. In the article, </ins>Hoffman <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">argues </ins>that the occupation <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">counter-terrorism </ins>strategy can <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">only </ins>be successful if it adopts a British model of counter-insurgency<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He singles out </ins>[[Frank Kitson<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|Frank Kitson’s</ins>]] '<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'</ins>Low Intensity Operations<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' as a model for the US occupation and argues that in order to defeat this ‘netwar’ - involving an enemy organised in a “loose, amorphous manner” or “postmodern insurgency” - return to the intelligence methods advocatedby the counter-insurgency movement is required. <ref>Jonny Burnett & Dave Whyte, '[http://www.jc2m.co.uk/Issue%204/Burnett&Whyte.pdf Embedded Expertise and the New Terrorism (PDF)]', ''Journal for Crime, Conflict and the Media'' 1 (4) p</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">11</ref></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hoffman had compared American <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">imperialism </ins>with its British predecessor in his early writings. In 1983 Bar-Ilan University Press published Hoffman’s book ''The failure of British military strategy within Palestine, 1939-1947''. A year later he compared the British colonial experience with the American presence in Lebanon in a RAND report he authored called ''The siege mentality in Beirut: an historical analogy between the British in Palestine and the Americans in Lebanon''.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Georgetown University===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Georgetown University===</div></td></tr>
</table>Tom Mills