The National Security Podcast

Bruce Hoffman and Sidney Jones, two of the world’s foremost terrorism experts, discuss the shifting strategies and tactics of jihadi groups in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. As ISIS is put on the run in the Middle East, what can be expected from al-Qaeda? Is it a spent force or are its fighters preparing to rise again? What of Southeast Asia in the wake of the Marawi siege – will we see more large-scale insurgency attacks? And why is the Indonesian military now a counter-terror force? In this National Security Podcast, Chris Farnham puts these vexed and alarming questions to Professor Bruce Hoffman and Dr Sidney Jones. Listen here: Professor Bruce Hoffman the Director of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A.Walsh School of Foreign Service, in Washington. He also lectures at St Andrew’s University and has previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation. Professor Hoffman was appointed by the U.S. Congress in 2013 to serve