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| alma_mater = [[Excelsior College]] (B.A. Arabic)
| alma_mater = [[Excelsior College]] (B.A. Arabic)
| known_for = [[National security]], [[Counterterrorism]] [[intelligence]], [[Islamic extremism]], [[Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape|SERE]], [[torture]]
| known_for = [[National security]], [[Counterterrorism]] [[intelligence]], [[Islamic extremism]], [[Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape|SERE]], [[torture]]
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| website = [http://www.thetacticsofterror.org/ www.thetacticsofterror.org]
| notable_works = ''[[The Plot to Hack America]]''
| years_active = 1981-present
| employer = Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), executive director
| occupation = Author, counterterrorism and intelligence commentator
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| website = {{official website|http://www.thetacticsofterror.org/}}
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'''Malcolm Wrightson Nance''' (born September 20, 1961) is a retired [[United States Navy]] [[Senior Chief Petty Officer]] in [[Cryptologic technician|naval cryptology]] and author, scholar, and media commentator on international terrorism, intelligence, insurgency and torture.
'''Malcolm Wrightson Nance''' (born September 20, 1961) is a retired [[United States Navy]] [[Senior Chief Petty Officer]] in [[Cryptologic technician|naval cryptology]] and author, scholar, and media commentator on international terrorism, intelligence, insurgency and torture.


Nance is an expert on intelligence and terrorism,<ref name="phillytrib">{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Layla A.|title=Philly native is media expert on intelligence|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/news/philly-native-is-media-expert-on-intelligence/article_437d30fa-2cc7-5c09-88f7-0785da1dbab2.html|accessdate=May 28, 2017|work=[[The Philadelphia Tribune]]|date=March 10, 2017|language=en}}</ref> and frequently discusses the history, personalities, and organization of [[jihadi]] [[radicalization]] and [[al-Qaeda]] and the [[Islamic State of Iraq and Levant]] (ISIL); Southwest Asian and African terror groups, as well as [[counterinsurgency]] and [[asymmetric warfare]]. Fluent in Arabic, he 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 2016, he published the book, ''Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe'',<ref>{{cite news|title=Malcolm Nance on Defeating ISIS|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?405971-4/washington-journal-malcolm-nance-defeating-isis|accessdate=May 28, 2017|work=[[Washington Journal]]|publisher=[[C-SPAN]]|date=March 13, 2016}}</ref> and published ''[[The Plot to Hack America]]'' the same year.<ref name=plottohack />
Nance is an expert on intelligence and terrorism,<ref name="phillytrib">{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Layla A.|title=Philly native is media expert on intelligence|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/news/philly-native-is-media-expert-on-intelligence/article_437d30fa-2cc7-5c09-88f7-0785da1dbab2.html|accessdate=May 28, 2017|work=[[The Philadelphia Tribune]]|date=March 10, 2017|language=en}}</ref> and frequently discusses the history, personalities, and organization of [[jihadi]] [[radicalization]] and [[al-Qaeda]] and the [[Islamic State of Iraq and Levant]] (ISIL); Southwest Asian and African terror groups, as well as [[counterinsurgency]] and [[asymmetric warfare]]. Fluent in Arabic, he 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 2016, he published the book, ''Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Malcolm Nance on Defeating ISIS|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?405971-4/washington-journal-malcolm-nance-defeating-isis|accessdate=May 28, 2017|work=Washington Journal|publisher=[[C-SPAN]]|date=March 13, 2016}}</ref>


In 2014, he became the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), a [[Hudson, New York]]-based [[think tank]].
In 2014, he became the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), a [[Hudson, New York]]-based [[think tank]].


==Education==
==Education==
Nance was born in [[Philadelphia]], and attended the city's [[West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys|West Catholic Boys High School]]. He studied Spanish, French, and Latin languages, and took advantage of free classes in Russian and Chinese offered at [[South Philadelphia High School]] on Saturdays.<ref name="phillytrib"/> He graduated from New York's [[Excelsior College]] with a degree in [[Arabic]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Malcolm Nance to present fall 2016 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science|url=https://www.pols.iastate.edu/2016/08/23/malcolm-nance-to-present-fall-2016-manatt-phelps-lecture-in-political-science/|accessdate=May 28, 2017|publisher=[[Iowa State University]]|date=August 23, 2016}}</ref> Nance was an interpreter for [[Russian language|Russian]], and began working in the intelligence field through research into the history of the [[Soviet Union]] and its spying agency the [[KGB]].<ref name=lipkin /> He subsequently devoted years of research to analyzing [[Middle East]] terrorism and sovereign nations with ties to Russia.<ref name=lipkin>{{citation|url=http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/plot-hack-america|access-date=June 7, 2017|first=Michael|last=Lipkin|work=[[New York Journal of Books]]|title=The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election|date=October 10, 2016}}</ref>
Nance was born in [[Philadelphia]], and attended the city's [[West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys|West Catholic Boys High School]]. He studied Spanish, French, and Latin languages, and took advantage of free classes in Russian and Chinese offered at [[South Philadelphia High School]] on Saturdays.<ref name="phillytrib"/> He graduated from New York's [[Excelsior College]] with a degree in [[Arabic]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Malcolm Nance to present fall 2016 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science|url=https://www.pols.iastate.edu/2016/08/23/malcolm-nance-to-present-fall-2016-manatt-phelps-lecture-in-political-science/|accessdate=May 28, 2017|publisher=[[Iowa State University]]|date=August 23, 2016}}</ref>


==Military career==
==Military career==
As former U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer in Naval Cryptology, he was involved in numerous counter-terrorism, intelligence, and combat operations.<ref name=vanityfair>{{citation|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/twitter-feeds-for-keeping-up-with-trump-and-russia|work=[[Vanity Fair]]|access-date=June 7, 2017|title=5 essential Twitter feeds for keeping up with Trump and Russia|first=James|last=Wolcott|date=March 21, 2017}}</ref><ref name=barbaralee>{{citation|url=http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Barbara-Lee-brings-John-Dean-Malcolm-Nance-to-11162924.php|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|access-date=June 7, 2017|title=Barbara Lee brings John Dean, Malcolm Nance to town hall meeting|date=May 21, 2017|first=Michael|last= Cabanatuan}}</ref><ref name=joeconcha>{{citation|access-date=June 7, 2017|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|title=Maher: Russian election influence is worst political scandal in US history|first=Joe|last=Concha|date=February 18, 2017|url=http://thehill.com/media/320224-maher-russian-election-influence-is-worst-political-scandal-in-us-history}}</ref> He garnered expertise within the fields of intelligence and counterterrorism.<ref name=devega>{{citation|url=http://www.salon.com/2017/03/14/intelligence-expert-malcolm-nance-on-trump-scandal-as-close-to-benedict-arnold-as-were-ever-going-to-get/|access-date=June 7, 2017|work=[[Salon.com|Salon]]|title=Intelligence expert Malcolm Nance on Trump scandal: 'As close to Benedict Arnold as we’re ever going to get'|date=March 14, 2017|first=Chauncey|last=Devega}}</ref><ref name=donahue>{{citation|first=Joe|last=Donahue|work=[[WAMC]]|access-date=June 7, 2017|url=http://wamc.org/post/counterterrorism-expert-malcolm-nance|title=Counterterrorism Expert Malcolm Nance|date=January 5, 2017}}</ref><ref name=hobson>{{citation|url=http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/10/12/how-hackable-election|work=Here and Now|agency=[[WBUR]]|first=Jeremy|last=Hobson|access-date=June 7, 2017|title=How Hackable Is The Election?|date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> He served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years, from 1981-2001.<ref name=lamb /><ref name=layla /> He received [[military decorations]] and speaks Arabic. He became an instructor in wartime and peacetime [[Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape|SERE]], training Navy and Marine Corps pilots and aircrew how to survive as a [[prisoner of war]].<ref name="HoustonChronicleWaterboarding20071108">{{cite news|title=Ex- Navy interrogator: Ban waterboarding |work=[[Navy Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |last=Kellman |first=Laurie |date=November 8, 2007 |accessdate=2015-12-12 |df= }}</ref><ref name="CbsNews20071108">{{cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-panel-gets-earful-on-waterboarding/|title=House Panel Gets Earful On Waterboarding|date=November 8, 2007|agency=[[CBS News]]|access-date=December 22, 2016}}</ref>
As former U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer in Naval Cryptology, he was involved in numerous counter-terrorism, intelligence, and combat operations. He received [[military decorations]] and speaks Arabic. He became an instructor in wartime and peacetime [[Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape|SERE]], training Navy and Marine Corps pilots and aircrew how to survive as a [[prisoner of war]].<ref name="HoustonChronicleWaterboarding20071108">{{cite news|url=http://archive.navytimes.com/article/20071108/NEWS/711080317/Ex-Navy-interrogator-Ban-waterboarding |title=Ex- Navy interrogator: Ban waterboarding |work=Navy Times |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |last=Kellman |first=Laurie |date=November 8, 2007 |accessdate=2015-12-12 |df= }}{{dead link|date=June 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="CbsNews20071108">{{cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-panel-gets-earful-on-waterboarding/|title=House Panel Gets Earful On Waterboarding|date=November 8, 2007|publisher=CBS News|access-date=December 22, 2016}}</ref> He conceptualized and spearheaded the Advanced Terrorism, Abduction and Hostage Survival school (ATAHS), a special survival program designed to train Special Mission Units, Navy SEALS and members of the [[U.S. Intelligence Community]] in resisting torture, exploitation and escaping terrorist captivity by al-Qaeda.{{cn|date=January 2017}} At ATAHS, he led an al-Qaeda simulation group to expose trainees at high risk of capture to the Al Qaeda organization and its abduction and attack tactics.{{cn|date=January 2017}}

Nance took part in combat operations which occurred after the [[1983 Beirut barracks bombings]], was involved with the [[1986 United States bombing of Libya]], served on the [[USS Wainwright (CG-28)|USS ''Wainwright'']] during [[Operation Praying Mantis]] and participated in the sinking of [[Iranian missile boat Joshan|Iranian missile boat ''Joshan'']], served on the [[USS Tripoli (LPH-10)|USS ''Tripoli'']] during the [[Gulf War]], and assisted during a [[Operation Deliberate Force|Banja Luka, Bosnia air strike]].<ref name=lamb />


==Post-military career==
==Post-military career==
After retiring from military service, Nance founded a consulting company based in [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown, Washington, D.C.]] where he provided advising services to [[United States Special Operations Command]].<ref name=lamb>{{citation|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?427699-1/qa-malcolm-nance|title=Q&A with Malcolm Nance|work=[[C-SPAN]]|date=April 28, 2017|first=Brian|last=Lamb|authorlink=Brian Lamb|type=video|access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref> In early 2001, Nance founded Special Readiness Services International (SRSI), an intelligence support company. On the morning of [[9/11]], driving to Arlington he witnessed the crash of [[American Airlines Flight 77]] into the Pentagon.<ref name=lamb /><ref name=layla>{{citation|access-date=June 7, 2017|work=[[The Philadelphia Tribune]]|date=March 10, 2017|title=Philly native is media expert on intelligence|first=Layla A.|last=Jones|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/news/philly-native-is-media-expert-on-intelligence/article_437d30fa-2cc7-5c09-88f7-0785da1dbab2.html}}</ref> He acted as a first responder at the helipad crash site where he helped organize the rescue and recovery of victims.<ref name=lamb /><ref name=layla /> Nance served as an intelligence and security contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan, the UAE and North Africa.<ref name=SanFranciscoChronicle>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/19/MNGKU67AHP1.DTL|title=12 U.S. troops die in Iraq; Spain leaving|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |last=Freeman|first=Colin|date=April 19, 2004|accessdate=2007-11-08}}</ref><ref name=TheTelegraph20070403>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/04/wirq04.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/04/ixnewstop.html |title=Iraqi police 'were too scared' to help Americans in Fallujah |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |last=Freeman |first=Colin |date=April 4, 2004 |accessdate=2007-11-08 |dead-url=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040821123328/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F04%2F04%2Fwirq04.xml |archivedate=August 21, 2004 |df= }}</ref>
In early 2001, Nance founded Special Readiness Services International (SRSI), an intelligence support company. On the morning of [[9/11]], driving to Arlington he witnessed the crash of [[American Airlines Flight 77]] into the Pentagon. He acted as a first responder at the helipad crash site where he helped organize the rescue and recovery of victims. Nance served as an intelligence and security contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan, the UAE and North Africa.<ref name=SanFranciscoChronicle>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/19/MNGKU67AHP1.DTL|title=12 U.S. troops die in Iraq; Spain leaving|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |last=Freeman|first=Colin|date=April 19, 2004|accessdate=2007-11-08}}</ref><ref name=TheTelegraph20070403>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/04/wirq04.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/04/ixnewstop.html |title=Iraqi police 'were too scared' to help Americans in Fallujah |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |last=Freeman |first=Colin |date=April 4, 2004 |accessdate=2007-11-08 |dead-url=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040821123328/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F04%2F04%2Fwirq04.xml |archivedate=August 21, 2004 |df= }}</ref>


==Academia and security industry==
Nance created a training center called the Advanced Terrorism, Abduction and Hostage Survival School.<ref name=layla /> Nance manages a [[think tank]] analyzing counterterrorism called "Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies", consisting of [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and military intelligence officers with direct prior field experience.<ref name=layla /><ref name=hobson>{{citation|url=http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/10/12/how-hackable-election|work=Here and Now|agency=[[WBUR]]|first=Jeremy|last=Hobson|access-date=June 7, 2017|title=How Hackable Is The Election?|date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> Nance is a member of the board of directors for the [[International Spy Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=lamb>{{citation|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?427699-1/qa-malcolm-nance|title=Q&A with Malcolm Nance|work=[[C-SPAN]]|date=April 28, 2017|first=Brian|last=Lamb|authorlink=Brian Lamb|type=video|access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref>
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Between 2005–2007 Nance was a visiting lecturer on counterterrorism in Sydney, Australia at [[Macquarie University]]'s Centre on Policing, Intelligence and Counter-terrorism (PICT) and at [[Victoria University of Wellington]] in [[Wellington, New Zealand]].<ref name=TheAge20060830>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Sydney-ferries-a-soft-terrorist-target/2006/08/30/1156816953922.html|title=Sydney ferries a 'soft terrorist target'|work=[[The Age]]|date=August 30, 2006|accessdate=2007-11-10}}</ref> Nance has been a guest lecturer on al-Qaeda and counter-ideology at the Defense Intelligence University and international law enforcement colleges.{{cn|date=January 2017}} Nance is a keynote speaker in the security industry on mitigating terrorist strategies and tactics including for the [[American Society of Industrial Security]] (ASIS), the Austral-Asian industrial security industry and the International Air Transport Authority (IATA).{{cn|date=January 2017}}


==''Small Wars Journal'' and torture controversy==
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Between 2005–2007 Nance was a visiting lecturer on counterterrorism in Sydney, Australia at [[Macquarie University]]'s Centre on Policing, Intelligence and Counter-terrorism (PICT) and at [[Victoria University of Wellington]] in [[Wellington, New Zealand]].<ref name=TheAge20060830>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Sydney-ferries-a-soft-terrorist-target/2006/08/30/1156816953922.html|title=Sydney ferries a 'soft terrorist target'|work=[[The Age]]|date=August 30, 2006|accessdate=2007-11-10}}</ref>
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In 2007, Nance wrote an article criticizing [[waterboarding]] for the counterinsurgency blog ''[[Small Wars Journal]]'' titled "Waterboarding is Torture... period."<ref name="SmallWarsJrnl20071031">{{cite news |url=http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/waterboarding-is-torture-period-links-updated-9|title=Waterboarding is torture... Period|date=October 31, 2007|publisher=Small Wars Journal|access-date=February 14, 2017}}</ref> Republished in the ''Pentagon Early Bird'', it set off a firestorm as the first credible description of the torture technique as used in SERE. The article strongly swayed the Pentagon against the use of the waterboard because its misuse would damage America's reputation worldwide. Nance claimed that using the torture techniques of America's former enemies dishonors the memory of U.S. service members who died in captivity through torture, and that torture does not produce credible intelligence.<ref name=HoustonChronicleWaterboarding20071108/><ref name=CbsNews20071108/> Nance was called to testify before the [[U.S. Congress]] about the use of "[[enhanced interrogation techniques]]".<ref name=HoustonChronicleWaterboarding20071108/><ref name=CbsNews20071108/> He told the [[House Judiciary Committee]] that:
{{quote|Waterboarding is torture, period... I believe that we must reject the use of the waterboard for prisoners and captives and cleanse this stain from our national honor... water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel(ing) your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs.}}


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==Guest analyst==
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In 2007, Nance wrote an article criticizing [[waterboarding]] for the counterinsurgency blog ''[[Small Wars Journal]]'' titled "Waterboarding is Torture... period."<ref name="SmallWarsJrnl20071031">{{cite news |url=http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/waterboarding-is-torture-period-links-updated-9|title=Waterboarding is torture... Period|date=October 31, 2007|publisher=Small Wars Journal|access-date=February 14, 2017}}</ref> Republished in the ''Pentagon Early Bird'', it set off a firestorm as the first credible description of the torture technique as used in SERE. The article strongly swayed the Pentagon against the use of the waterboard because its misuse would damage America's reputation worldwide. Nance claimed that using the torture techniques of America's former enemies dishonors the memory of U.S. service members who died in captivity through torture, and that torture does not produce credible intelligence.<ref name=HoustonChronicleWaterboarding20071108/><ref name=CbsNews20071108/> Nance was called to testify before the [[U.S. Congress]] about the use of "[[enhanced interrogation techniques]]".<ref name=HoustonChronicleWaterboarding20071108/><ref name=CbsNews20071108/> He told the [[House Judiciary Committee]] that: "Waterboarding is torture, period... I believe that we must reject the use of the waterboard for prisoners and captives and cleanse this stain from our national honor... water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel(ing) your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs."<ref name=HoustonChronicleWaterboarding20071108/><ref name=CbsNews20071108/>
Nance is often a guest policy analyst on television frequently for BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and [[Al Jazeera America]] and radio on [[BBC World Service]], London Broadcasting, and [[WAMC]] in New York and [[Western Massachusetts]].{{cn|date=January 2017}}


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Nance was a frequent guest analyst on terrorist strategy on [[Fox News]] with [[Tony Snow]], who would later become the Press Secretary of President [[George W. Bush]].<ref name=NYTimes20000430>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E3DB1739F933A05757C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=Tourists Stumble Into the Line of Fire |work=[[New York Times]]|author=[[Joe Sharkey]]|date=April 30, 2000|accessdate=2007-11-08}}</ref> He was featured on numerous international political talk shows including PBS's ''NewsHour'', BBC's ''Hardtalk'' and ''World Have Your Say'', Australian Broadcasting's ''Dateline'', German TV's ZDF ''Frontier 21'', TV 5, France 24 and others.{{cn|date=January 2017}}
Nance's books on [[counter-terrorism]] and intelligence include: ''An End to al-Qaeda'',<ref>{{citation|first=Malcolm|last=Nance|title=An End to al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden's Jihad and Restoring America's Honor|year=2010|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|isbn=978-0312592493}}</ref> ''Terrorist Recognition Handbook'',<ref>{{citation|first=Malcolm|last=Nance|title=Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, Third Edition|year=2013|isbn=978-1466554573|publisher=[[CRC Press]]}}</ref> ''The Terrorists of Iraq'',<ref>{{citation|first=Malcolm|last=Nance|title=The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014, Second Edition|year=2014|isbn=978-1498706896|publisher=[[CRC Press]]}}</ref> and two books about the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIS), ''Defeating ISIS'',<ref>{{citation|first=Malcolm|last=Nance|title=Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe|year=2016|isbn=978-1510711846|publisher=[[Skyhorse Publishing]]}}</ref> ''[[The Plot to Hack America]]'',<ref name=plottohack>{{citation|first=Malcolm|last=Nance|authorlink=Malcolm Nance|title=[[The Plot to Hack America|The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election]]|publisher=[[Skyhorse Publishing]]|date=October 10, 2016|isbn=978-1510723320|pages=216}}</ref> and ''Hacking ISIS''.<ref>{{citation|first=Malcolm|last=Nance|title=Hacking ISIS: How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad|year=2017|isbn=978-1510718920|publisher=[[Skyhorse Publishing]]}}</ref>


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Prior to the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 U.S. presidential election]], Nance urged readers to be skeptical of the [[Podesta emails]] leaked by [[WikiLeaks]], writing that the documents were "riddled with obvious forgeries" and were [[black propaganda]] "not even professionally done" and arguing that even if all the emails were authentic, WikiLeaks' excerpts of the emails were posted to Twitter in a way that distorted their meaning.<ref>{{Cite tweet|user=MalcolmNance|last=Nance|first=Malcolm|number=784539641529720832|date=October 7, 2016|title=Official Warning: #PodestaEmails are already proving to be riddled with obvious forgeries & #blackpropaganda not even professionally done.}}</ref><ref name="StarksGeller">Tim Starks & Eric Geller, [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/wikileaks-russia-hillary-clinton-campaign-democrats-229707 Russians, lies and WikiLeaks], [[Politico]], (October 12, 2016).</ref>
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Nance was a frequent guest analyst on terrorist strategy on [[Fox News]] with [[Tony Snow]], who would later become the Press Secretary of President [[George W. Bush]].<ref name=NYTimes20000430>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E3DB1739F933A05757C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=Tourists Stumble Into the Line of Fire |work=[[New York Times]]|author=[[Joe Sharkey]]|date=April 30, 2000|accessdate=2007-11-08}}</ref>


== Controversies ==
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Prior to the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 U.S. presidential election]], Nance urged readers to be skeptical of the [[Podesta emails]] leaked by [[WikiLeaks]], writing that the documents were "riddled with obvious forgeries" and were [[black propaganda]] "not even professionally done" and arguing that even if all the emails were authentic, WikiLeaks' excerpts of the emails were posted to Twitter in a way that distorted their meaning.<ref>{{Cite tweet|user=MalcolmNance|last=Nance|first=Malcolm|number=784539641529720832|date=October 7, 2016|title=Official Warning: #PodestaEmails are already proving to be riddled with obvious forgeries & #blackpropaganda not even professionally done.}}</ref><ref name="StarksGeller">{{citation|first1=Tim |last1=Starks|first2=Eric |last2=Geller|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/wikileaks-russia-hillary-clinton-campaign-democrats-229707 |title=Russians, lies and WikiLeaks|work= [[Politico]]|date=October 12, 2016}}</ref>
On April 18, 2017 Malcolm Nance encouraged ISIS to carry out a suicide bombing of a President Trump's property. His tweet read "This is my nominee for the first ISIS suicide bombing of a Trump property". <ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/19/malcolm-nance-msnbc-terrorism-analyst-nominates-tr/</ref>. Once the tweet became popular and controversial it was deleted.


==Selected bibliography==
Select bibliography


'''Books and edited works'''
'''Books and edited works'''


*{{cite book|title=[[The Plot to Hack America|The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election]]|year=2016|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing}}
*{{cite book|title=The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election|year=2016|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|url=http://skyhorsepublishing.com/titles/12572-9781510723320-plot-to-hack-america}}
* {{cite book|title=Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-510-71184-6|url=http://skyhorsepublishing.com/titles/10372-9781510711846-defeating-isis}}.
* {{cite book|title=Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-510-71184-6|url=http://skyhorsepublishing.com/titles/10372-9781510711846-defeating-isis}}.
* {{cite book|title=The Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activity |publisher=CRC Press|year=2013|isbn=978-1-466-55457-3|url=http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466554573}} (1st Edition 2004, 2nd Edition 2008, 3rd Edition 2013).
* {{cite book|title=The Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activity |publisher=CRC Press|year=2013|isbn=978-1-466-55457-3|url=http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466554573}} (1st Edition 2004, 2nd Edition 2008, 3rd Edition 2013).
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Malcolm Nance
Born
Malcolm Wrightson Nance

(1961-09-20) September 20, 1961 (age 63)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materExcelsior College (B.A. Arabic)
Known forNational security, Counterterrorism intelligence, Islamic extremism, SERE, torture
Websitewww.thetacticsofterror.org

Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born September 20, 1961) is a retired United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer in naval cryptology and author, scholar, and media commentator on international terrorism, intelligence, insurgency and torture.

Nance is an expert on intelligence and terrorism,[1] and frequently discusses the history, personalities, and organization of jihadi radicalization and al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL); Southwest Asian and African terror groups, as well as counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare. Fluent in Arabic, he 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 2016, he published the book, Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe.[2]

In 2014, he became the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), a Hudson, New York-based think tank.

Education

Nance was born in Philadelphia, and attended the city's West Catholic Boys High School. He studied Spanish, French, and Latin languages, and took advantage of free classes in Russian and Chinese offered at South Philadelphia High School on Saturdays.[1] He graduated from New York's Excelsior College with a degree in Arabic.[3]

Military career

As former U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer in Naval Cryptology, he was involved in numerous counter-terrorism, intelligence, and combat operations. He received military decorations and speaks Arabic. He became an instructor in wartime and peacetime SERE, training Navy and Marine Corps pilots and aircrew how to survive as a prisoner of war.[4][5] He conceptualized and spearheaded the Advanced Terrorism, Abduction and Hostage Survival school (ATAHS), a special survival program designed to train Special Mission Units, Navy SEALS and members of the U.S. Intelligence Community in resisting torture, exploitation and escaping terrorist captivity by al-Qaeda.[citation needed] At ATAHS, he led an al-Qaeda simulation group to expose trainees at high risk of capture to the Al Qaeda organization and its abduction and attack tactics.[citation needed]

Post-military career

In early 2001, Nance founded Special Readiness Services International (SRSI), an intelligence support company. On the morning of 9/11, driving to Arlington he witnessed the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. He acted as a first responder at the helipad crash site where he helped organize the rescue and recovery of victims. Nance served as an intelligence and security contractor in Iraq, Afghanistan, the UAE and North Africa.[6][7]

Academia and security industry

Between 2005–2007 Nance was a visiting lecturer on counterterrorism in Sydney, Australia at Macquarie University's Centre on Policing, Intelligence and Counter-terrorism (PICT) and at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand.[8] Nance has been a guest lecturer on al-Qaeda and counter-ideology at the Defense Intelligence University and international law enforcement colleges.[citation needed] Nance is a keynote speaker in the security industry on mitigating terrorist strategies and tactics including for the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), the Austral-Asian industrial security industry and the International Air Transport Authority (IATA).[citation needed]

Small Wars Journal and torture controversy

In 2007, Nance wrote an article criticizing waterboarding for the counterinsurgency blog Small Wars Journal titled "Waterboarding is Torture... period."[9] Republished in the Pentagon Early Bird, it set off a firestorm as the first credible description of the torture technique as used in SERE. The article strongly swayed the Pentagon against the use of the waterboard because its misuse would damage America's reputation worldwide. Nance claimed that using the torture techniques of America's former enemies dishonors the memory of U.S. service members who died in captivity through torture, and that torture does not produce credible intelligence.[4][5] Nance was called to testify before the U.S. Congress about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques".[4][5] He told the House Judiciary Committee that:

Waterboarding is torture, period... I believe that we must reject the use of the waterboard for prisoners and captives and cleanse this stain from our national honor... water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel(ing) your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs.

Guest analyst

Nance is often a guest policy analyst on television frequently for BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Al Jazeera America and radio on BBC World Service, London Broadcasting, and WAMC in New York and Western Massachusetts.[citation needed]

Nance was a frequent guest analyst on terrorist strategy on Fox News with Tony Snow, who would later become the Press Secretary of President George W. Bush.[10] He was featured on numerous international political talk shows including PBS's NewsHour, BBC's Hardtalk and World Have Your Say, Australian Broadcasting's Dateline, German TV's ZDF Frontier 21, TV 5, France 24 and others.[citation needed]

Prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Nance urged readers to be skeptical of the Podesta emails leaked by WikiLeaks, writing that the documents were "riddled with obvious forgeries" and were black propaganda "not even professionally done" and arguing that even if all the emails were authentic, WikiLeaks' excerpts of the emails were posted to Twitter in a way that distorted their meaning.[11][12]

Controversies

On April 18, 2017 Malcolm Nance encouraged ISIS to carry out a suicide bombing of a President Trump's property. His tweet read "This is my nominee for the first ISIS suicide bombing of a Trump property". [13]. Once the tweet became popular and controversial it was deleted.

Select bibliography

Books and edited works

  • The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election. Skyhorse Publishing. 2016.
  • Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe. Skyhorse Publishing. 2016. ISBN 978-1-510-71184-6..
  • The Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activity. CRC Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-466-55457-3. (1st Edition 2004, 2nd Edition 2008, 3rd Edition 2013).
  • 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.
  • The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003–2014, Second Edition. CRC Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-498-70689-6. (1st Edition 2007,2nd Edition 2014)

Selected journal articles

Movies and documentaries

References

  1. ^ a b Jones, Layla A. (March 10, 2017). "Philly native is media expert on intelligence". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  2. ^ "Malcolm Nance on Defeating ISIS". Washington Journal. C-SPAN. March 13, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  3. ^ "Malcolm Nance to present fall 2016 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science". Iowa State University. August 23, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Kellman, Laurie (November 8, 2007). "Ex- Navy interrogator: Ban waterboarding". Navy Times. Associated Press. Retrieved 2015-12-12.[dead link]
  5. ^ a b c "House Panel Gets Earful On Waterboarding". CBS News. November 8, 2007. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  6. ^ Freeman, Colin (April 19, 2004). "12 U.S. troops die in Iraq; Spain leaving". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  7. ^ Freeman, Colin (April 4, 2004). "Iraqi police 'were too scared' to help Americans in Fallujah". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on August 21, 2004. Retrieved 2007-11-08. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Sydney ferries a 'soft terrorist target'". The Age. August 30, 2006. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
  9. ^ "Waterboarding is torture... Period". Small Wars Journal. October 31, 2007. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  10. ^ Joe Sharkey (April 30, 2000). "Tourists Stumble Into the Line of Fire". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  11. ^ Nance, Malcolm [@MalcolmNance] (October 7, 2016). "Official Warning: #PodestaEmails are already proving to be riddled with obvious forgeries & #blackpropaganda not even professionally done" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ Tim Starks & Eric Geller, Russians, lies and WikiLeaks, Politico, (October 12, 2016).
  13. ^ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/19/malcolm-nance-msnbc-terrorism-analyst-nominates-tr/
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