From 1987 to 1998, Schweitzer intermittently headed the International Terrorism[6] Section of the Israeli Defense Force's Military Intelligence Directorate.
Schweitzer is analyzing the brand of global terrorism launched by groups adhering to this belief and its attendant ideology.
He conducted a three year-long project comprising in-depth studies, analyses and interviews with attempted suicide bombers,[8] suicide-bombing dispatchers, and leaders of Palestinian terror organizations.
This included leaders in Israeli prisons, and others who were released as part of the exchange deal to secure the freedom of Gilad Shalit.
[9] Psychological warfare: Schweitzer is currently studying and analyzing the propaganda campaigns being deployed by the Islamic State as well as by Al-Qaeda and its affiliates.