Malcolm Nance

Nance in the early 2000s

Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born September 20, 1961 ) is an American author and media commentator on terrorism , military intelligence , rioting and torture . He is a former Senior Chief Petty Officer of the US Navy , which refers to Navy - Cryptography has specialized.

In the 20 years that Nance worked for the US Navy from 1981 to 2001, he was also an instructor in SERE training in addition to his involvement in various anti-terror, intelligence and combat missions . There he trained Navy and Marine Corps pilots and aircrews to survive as possible prisoners of war .

After retiring from the military, Nance founded a consulting firm based in Georgetown , where he advised the United States Special Operations Command . In early 2001, Nance founded Special Readiness Services International (SRSI), an intelligence support company. While driving to Arlington, Virginia on the morning of Nine-Eleven , he witnessed American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon . As a first aider , he supported the rescue and treatment of the victims at the crash site. Nance served as a news and security entrepreneur in Iraq, Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, and North Africa.

Nance founded the Advanced Terrorism, Abduction and Hostage Survival School training center. He is a member of the advisory board of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC .

Between 2005 and 2007 Nance was visiting professor of counter-terrorism at the Center for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (PICT) at Macquarie University in Sydney and at the Victoria University of Wellington .

Nance is an expert on intelligence and terrorism and often discusses the history, personalities and organization of jihadism , al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS); Southwest Asian and African terrorist groups; as well as counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare . He speaks fluent Arabic and is particularly active in relation to Islamist extremism in the field of national security policy , in education and counter-terrorism , the strategy and tactics of terrorism and torture.

The Oscar-nominated documentary Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield features an interview with Malcolm Nance.

Nance is one of the prominent opponents of the use of the interrogation method waterboarding . An article he published in the online magazine Small Wars Journal in 2007 with the title “Waterboarding is torture… period” (German: “Waterboarding is torture… point”) met with a great response as the first credible description of the interrogation method. Nance also spoke out against waterboarding in hearings before the US Congress and the Legal Committee of the US House of Representatives .

Since 2014, Nance has been Managing Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project for Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), a Hudson, New York- based think tank for counter-terrorism analysis made up of CIA and military intelligence officers with direct on-site experience.

Publications

• An End to al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden's Jihad and Restoring America's Honor . St. Martin's, 2010, ISBN 978-0-312-59249-3 ( limited preview ).
• Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activity . CRC Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4665-5457-3 .
• The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003–2014 . CRC Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4987-0689-6 .
• The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election . Skyhorse Publishing, 2016 ( limited preview ).
• Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe . Skyhorse Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5107-1184-6 ( limited preview ). .
• Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel task force of the US House Homeland Security Committee ; Foreword by Malcolm Nance: Final Report of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel . Skyhorse Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5107-1238-6 .
• Hacking ISIS: How to Destroy the Cyber ​​Jihad . Skyhorse Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5107-1892-0 ( limited preview ).

Web links

• Malcolm Nance in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e} Brian Lamb: Q&A with Malcolm Nance . In: C-SPAN . April 28, 2017.
2. ^ ^{A b} House Panel Gets Earful On Waterboarding . In: CBS News . November 8, 2007.
3. ^ ^{A b c d e} Layla A. Jones: Philly native is media expert on intelligence . In: The Philadelphia Tribune . March 10, 2017.
4. ^ Colin Freeman: 12 US troops in Iraq; Spain leaving . In: San Francisco Chronicle . April 19, 2004. Retrieved November 8, 2007.
5. ^ Colin Freeman: Iraqi police "were too scared" to help Americans in Fallujah . In: The Daily Telegraph . April 4, 2004. Archived from the original on April 11, 2004. Retrieved on November 8, 2007.
6. ↑ Waterboarding is torture… Period . In: Small Wars Journal . October 31, 2007.
7. ↑ Alex Chadwick: Expert Sheds Light on Waterboarding . National Public Radio . November 1, 2007.
8. ↑ Josh White: Waterboarding Is Torture, Says Ex-Navy Instructor . In: Washington Post . November 9, 2007.
9. ↑ Jeremy Hobson: How Hackable Is The Election? . In: Here and Now . 2016-19-12.