Nance served in the United States Navy from 1981 to 2001. In 2011, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York's Excelsior University. He studied Spanish, French, and Latin, and took advantage of free classes in Russian and Chinese offered at South Philadelphia High School on Saturdays. He attended the city's West Catholic Boys High School. 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. In 2016, he published the book, Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe, and published The Plot to Hack America the same year. He has learned Arabic and 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. 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. He is a former United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer specializing in naval cryptology. Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born 1961) is an American author and media pundit.
Senior chief petty officer (United States)
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