James J.F. Forest  James J. F. Forest is an author and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is also a senior fellow at the U.S. Joint Special Operations University and a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the former director of Terrorism Studies at the United States Military Academy. He has been cited as a terrorism expert by dozens of news outlets including CNN,  CBS, The Globe Post,  CNBC, and the Christian Science Monitor, and is co-editor of the academic research journal Perspectives on Terrorism. https://www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-Defence-Politics-International-and-Comparative-Perspectives/Wilson-III-Forrest/p/book/9781857434439 (2008)