# Brian Michael Jenkins **Entity class:** Person; terrorism scholar and strategic analyst ## Definition **Brian Michael Jenkins** is a longtime RAND terrorism researcher, former Special Forces officer, and author of books and reports on terrorism, radicalization, transportation security, and the United States' response to terrorism. He initiated RAND's tenth-anniversary assessment of the policy response to September 11 and has advised national commissions on terrorism and aviation security. ## Why This Person Is Included Jenkins is the collection's historical anchor in disciplined terrorism studies. Bryant McGill includes him because terrorism must remain an empirical strategic and organizational problem even as analysis expands into graphs, AI, sensors, and prediction. Jenkins grounds the collection in the long professional study of terrorism; Bryant's synthesis extends that lineage into a new computational environment rather than replacing it. ## Relationships - **institution:** [[wiki/RAND Corporation|RAND Corporation]]. - **domains:** [[wiki/Terrorism|Terrorism]], [[wiki/Counterterrorism|Counterterrorism]], [[wiki/Radicalization|Radicalization]], and [[wiki/Transportation Security|Transportation Security]]. - **collection role:** classical terrorism-studies anchor in [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [RAND Corporation, “Brian Michael Jenkins”](https://www.rand.org/about/people/j/jenkins_brian_michael.html) (accessed 2026-09-23). **As of:** 2026-09-23