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| Born | Malcolm Wrightson Nance[1] 1961 (age 63–64) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Excelsior University (BA) |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
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| Title | Executive Director, Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI) |
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| Rank |  Senior chief petty officer (United States) |
| Website | tapstri.org |
Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born 1961)[1] is an American author and media pundit. He is a former United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer specializing in naval cryptology.
Nance 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.[2] He has learned Arabic and is active in the field of national security policy[3] 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,[4] and published The Plot to Hack America the same year.[5]
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.
- ^ a b Valania, Jonathan (April 15, 2018). "How Mount Airy's Malcolm Nance Became a Hero of the Resistance". Philadelphia Magazine. Archived from the original on May 8, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
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