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Biography
Malcolm W. Nance is a 25-year veteran of the US intelligence community's Combating Terrorism program. He is a combat veteran who has served as an intelligence collections operator, cryptologist and interrogator. He has spent 17 years deploying on anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism intelligence operations in the Balkans, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa in direct support to the Special Operations Command as well as assignments at the principle agencies of the Intelligence Community. In the Global War on Terrorism he served in Afghanistan where he conducted intelligence operations in Nangahar province (Jalalabad-Tora Bora) and 14 months in Iraq as a security director at the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. There he studied the Iraqi resistance and Al Qaeda’s involvement in the insurgency. He is a FOX News analyst on Al Qaeda and the Insurgency.

He is author of:

• The Terrorist Recognition Handbook – A Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities First edition sold out. Second edition Spring 2006
• The Terrorists of Iraq - Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency. Publication date summer 2006
• The New Field of Jihad – A Compendium of the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures of the Terrorist Insurgency 2002-2006 Publication date summer 2006
• Al Qaeda 3.0 "Combat and the Call" – The Newest Generation of the Bin Laden Jihad Publication date fall 2006
• Terrorist Tactics – Organizations, Weapons, Operations and Strategies of Modern Political Violence Groups 1960-2005 Publication date winter 2006

He has a BA from New York State University’s Excelsior College and speaks five languages including Arabic, Pashto, French, Italian and Spanish. Today he is Director of Special Readiness Services International (SRSI) a Washington DC-based anti-terrorism/counter-terrorism consultancy supporting the intelligence community.

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Session SP15: Striking the Hydra - Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency and Al Qaeda in Iraq
February 18, 15:00-15:45 Abstract:
Striking the Hydra is a dynamic speech revealing the strategy, tactics and organization of the Iraq Insurgency. Based on information and analysis collected during his 15 months in Iraq as a security director, and intelligence collector for the Coalition Provisional Authority and trainer of Iraqi security personnel this lecture provides the single greatest open source detail on the three wings of the insurgency. He will detail the organization and development of the insurgents who include the Former Regime Loyalists and pro-Saddam nationalists, the Iraqi Islamic Extremists of Ansar al Islam-Ansar al Sunnah and the foreign fighters of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The lecture details the Iraq pre-war insurgent plan, Project 111 and the ground war combat of the Saddam Fedayeen, the activities of the Iraqi intelligence agencies in the post war and the organization of the insurgents and the introduction of foreign fighters into Iraq. Additionally Striking the Hydra details the four phased Kill-Humiliate-Punish-Inspire (KHPI) strategy of the insurgents. This strategy and the universal combat tactics, techniques and procedures of the insurgents is designed to inflict maximum casualties in order to win a strategic withdrawal of the United states and return the Ba'ath arty to power.