Malcolm Wrightson Nance is a New York Times Best Selling American author and media pundit. He is a former United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer specializing in naval cryptology.
Malcolm 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. He has learned Arabic and is active in the field of national security policy particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism.
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.
Malcolm Nance books include:
- “The Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner’s Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities” (2003)
- “An End to Al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden’s Jihad and Restoring America’s Honor” (2010)
- “Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe” (2016)
- “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election” (2016)
- “Hacking ISIS: How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad” (2016)
- “The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West” (2018)
- “The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It” (2019)
- “The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran” (2020)