Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born 1961) is an American author, media pundit, and former United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer specializing in naval cryptology. He is an intelligence and foreign policy analyst, with a focus on the history, personalities, and organization of jihadi radicalization, al-Qaeda, ISIS, Southwest Asian and African terror groups, and counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare. Fluent in Arabic, Nance is actively involved in national security policy, specifically in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture, and counter-ideology against Islamic extremism. In 2016, he published the books 'Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe' and 'The Plot to Hack America.' Nance also founded and serves as the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics, and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI).