Award-winning author, journalist, and military analyst W. Thomas Smith Jr. specializes in counterterrorism and national defense issues. His work has appeared in The New York Post, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, and many others.
A former U.S. Marine rifle-squad leader and parachutist, Smith is a technical consultant for military tech films airing on The Military Channel. He directs the Counterterrorism Research Center of the Family Security Foundation, and he is a contract technical editor for two major book publishing houses.
Smith, a veteran war correspondent, has covered conflict in the Balkans, on the West Bank, in Iraq, and Lebanon.