Yossef Bodansky is the Director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association, and is also the Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives. He is also a Senior Editor for the Defense and Foreign Affairs group of publications. He is the author of five books (Target America, Terror, Crisis in Korea, Offensive in the Balkans, and Some Call it Peace), as well as several book chapters, entries for the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia, and numerous articles in several periodicals, including Global Affairs, Jane's Defense Weekly, Defense and Foreign Affairs: Strategic Policy, Nativ and Business Week.