Professor Paul Moorcraft has written over fifty books onsecurity issues. He was previously a senior instructor at the Royal Military AcademySandhurst and later at the Defence Academy. He also worked for the Ministry ofDefence both in Whitehall and in the field in the Middle East. Besides teachingfull-time at ten major international universities, he has also worked as a warcorrespondent in thirty war zones. He is a frequent broadcaster on defenceissues for the BBC and was formerly a regular pundit for Sky News Arabia.Dr Moorcraft has lived on both the Gazan and the Lebaneseborders and in the Arab quarter of Old Jerusalem when he was a student. Unusually,he worked alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan and accompanied them in closecombat during the Russian occupation. He has covered many of the major events inthe Middle East, from the siege of Jenin in 2002 – when he was smuggled intothe refugee camp by the Palestine Liberation Organization – to joining GeorgeGalloway on his secret visit to Baghdad on the eve of the war against SaddamHussein in 2002, before returning to Iraq to record the British occupation inBasra.
