Malcolm Nance
American author, former intelligence officer, and terrorism expert (born 1961) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born 1961)[1] is an American author and media pundit. He is a former United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer specializing in naval cryptology.
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Born | Malcolm Wrightson Nance[1] 1961 (age 62–63) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | Excelsior University (BA) |
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Years active | 1981–present |
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Title | Executive Director, Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI) |
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Rank | Senior chief petty officer (United States) |
Website | tapstri.org |
Nance is an intelligence and foreign policy analyst who frequently discusses the history, personalities, and organization of jihadi radicalization and al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS), Southwest Asian and African terror groups, as well as counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare.[2] He has learned Arabic and is active in the field of national security policy[3] particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism. In 2016, he published the book, Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe,[4] and published The Plot to Hack America the same year.[5]
In 2014, he founded and became the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), a Hudson, New York–based think tank.