Paul Moorcraft first started working in Israel in 1970. He has lived and worked in Sderot on the Gaza border and in Baram on the Lebanese border. He is one of the few westerners who has lived and worked alongside jihadists, often in daily combat, in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Bosnia in the 1990s and in Sudan in the twenty-first century. He is the author of over fifty books, as well as being a former Sandhurst senior instructor and a founder DS at the UK Joint Services and Command Staff College.