Ahron Bregman is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He was a Captain in the Israeli army during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and worked as a parliamentary assistant at the Knesset. Bregman is the author of The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs (1998), the companion book to a six-part BBC television documentary; Elusive Peace (2005), the companion book to a three-part BBC television documentary; Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories (2014); and the memoirs The Spy Who Fell to Earth (2022).