Malcolm Nance is a counterterrorism intelligence consultant for the U.S. government's special operations, homeland security, and intelligence agencies. He is a renowned expert of al-Qaeda strategy and tactics and a combat veteran with twenty-eight years' operational experience in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia. An author of several books on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency and a blogger at smallwarsjournal.com, he is director of the International Anti-terrorism Center for Excellence.