Brian Michael Jenkins
{{Short description|American terrorism expert (born 1942)}}
Brian Michael Jenkins (born 1942) is an American expert on terrorism and transportation security.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050724023146/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8661445/site/newsweek/ Newsweek], July 21, 2005 During his over five decades of analysis, Jenkins has advised governments, private corporations, the Catholic Church, and the Church of England on terrorist threats.
Biography
Jenkins was born in 1942 in Chicago.[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9296629_ITM Profile of Jenkins] from Omni Magazine, November 1994 He joined the United States Army at 19. He served with the 7th Special Forces Group in the Dominican Republic and with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. He subsequently served as a civilian with the Long Range Planning Task Group advising General Creighton Abrams, commander of military operations in Vietnam.{{cite news
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|title=Confronting terror, calmly
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|author=Greg Krikorian
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He was featured in the 1980 documentary about the Vietnam War, Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420789/ Brian Jenkins on IMDB] From 1989 to 1998, Jenkins was deputy chairman of security firm Kroll Associates.{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030331-jenkins.htm
|title=Statement of Brian Jenkins to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States March 31, 2003}} He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation and Director of the Mineta Transportation Institute's Transportation Security Center. He also served as a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, 1996–1997 and as an advisor to the National Commission on Terrorism, 2000. He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other government agencies.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}
Jenkins is the author of many books, including Unconquerable Nation (2006), Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (2008), and Plagues and their Aftermath (2022).
Quotes
- "Terrorism is theater" (1974)Jenkins, Brian M. ''International Terrorism: A new kind of warfare'. 1974. p. 4. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2008/P5261.pdf
- "Terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead" (1975){{Cite web|url=http://www.judithmiller.com/511/will-terrorists-go-nuclear|title = Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.rand.org/media/experts/bios/jenkins_brian_michael.html Biography on RAND]
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