Paul Moorcraft
How to Win the War on Terror
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Paul Moorcraft is Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London.
He has worked as a war correspondent and in the UK Ministry of Defence in over 35 conflict zones over the last 30 years.
He writes regular columns for a wide range of newspapers, including the Washington Times, Business Day Johannesburg and the Guardian.
He broadcasts regularly on current affairs for BBC TV & Radio, Sky TV, al-Jazeera etc.
Paul Moorcraft is equally successful as a fiction writer. His award-winning psychological thriller Anchoress of Shere was published first in UK in 2000, then by Poisoned Pen Press in the US in 2002. The Japanese edition was published in 2003.
He also wrote the screenplay of the novel.
Dr Moorcraft has worked alongside insurgents since the early 1980s in Afghanistan. He is one of the few westerners who has actually gone into battle alongside Jihadists in a number of conflicts.
But he has also worked inside Western security establishments, including a period as a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. He returned to government service for the Iraq war (2003).
He has also taught full-time at ten universities.
How to Win the War on Terror is a question Paul Moorcraft is uniquely qualified to address. His best-known books cover war, politics and crime. His African Nemesis: War and Revolution in Southern Africa (Brassey's, 1990) and his earlier Chimurenga: the War in Rhodesia (Collins, 1982) are considered standard texts in military history.
His recent co-authored books, Axis of Evil: the War on Terror (Pen and Sword, 2005) and the updated US version The New Wars of the West (Casemate, 2006) cover the post 9/11 crisis.
Forever
(Fiction - in progress)
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Forever is another psychological thriller, covering two times zones (1790s in England and the present day).
An American psychiatrist in London reluctantly gets sucked into a past-life experience, which involves murder and a passionate love affair.
War Story
~ The Political Impact of War Reporting from Caesar to Rumsfeld ~
(Provisional title - non-fiction - in progress)
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Dr Moorcraft is completing this book for Potomac, Washington, with Professor Phil Taylor of Leeds University.
This will become a standard text on war reporting.
