The Editors

Bill Roggio

Bill Roggio is the Managing Editor of The Long War Journal; the president of Public Multimedia Inc., a nonprofit media organization with a mission to provide original and accurate reporting and analysis of the Long War; an Adjunct Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; a Hoover Institute Media Fellow; and a contributor to the The Weekly Standard. His coverage includes the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Lebanon, and Iraq, as well as al Qaeda's operations, tactics, and strategy.

Bill has embedded with the US Marine Corps, the US Army, the Georgian Army, the Iraqi Army, and the Iraqi police in Iraq in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, and with the Canadian Army in Afghanistan in 2006. His articles have been published in The Washington Times, The New York Post, The National Review, The Toronto Times, and Die Weltwoche. His photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He also presents regularly at the US Air Force's Contemporary Counterinsurgency Warfare School on the media and embedded reporting. Bill served as a signalman and infantryman in the US Army and the New Jersey National Guard from 1991 to 1997. Bill can be reached at bill.roggio@longwarjournal.org

Thomas Joscelyn

Thomas Joscelyn is the Senior Editor of The Long War Journal. Thomas is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). He is also the executive director of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism at FDD. He is a terrorism analyst, economist, and writer living in New York. Most of Thomas's research and writing has focused on how al Qaeda and its affiliates operate around the world. He is a regular contributor to the Weekly Standard and its online publications, the Daily Standard and Worldwide Standard. His work has also been published by National Review Online, the New York Post, and other media outlets. Thomas is the author of Iran’s Proxy War Against America, a short book published by the Claremont Institute that details Iran’s decades-long sponsorship of America’s terrorist enemies. He makes regular appearances on radio programs around the country and has appeared on MSNBC and FOX News.

In 2006 he was named one of the Claremont Institute’s Lincoln Fellows. Thomas served as the senior terrorism adviser for Mayor Rudoph Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Lisa Lundquist

Lisa Lundquist is the Editor of The Long War Journal. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Yale and a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA. She has lived abroad, taught at an international school, and written and edited various publications in the field of law.

Bob Barry

Bob Barry provides programming and technical assistance to The Long War Journal. Bob has been programming for 50 years, starting back when “baud” meant holes in paper tape. He graduated from Iowa State, Pitt, and Harvard Business School, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a six sigma master black belt. Bob is the author or principal author of six books on healthcare management. He lives Monroeville, Penn., and can be reached at rbarry@pmd28.hbs.edu.

The Contributors

Bill Ardolino is a marketing professional, freelance writer, and Adjunct Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who lives in Washington, D.C. He has maintained INDC Journal since 2004, and written for the Washington Examiner and The Long War Journal. Dissatisfied with the short supply of on-the-ground reporting out of Iraq, Ardolino embedded with the US Marine Corps, the US Army, the Iraqi Army, and the Iraqi police in Fallujah, Habbaniyah, and Baghdad in 2006, 2007, and 2008. His reporting focuses on combat operations, the development of Iraqi security forces, civil affairs work, and Iraqi politics. He was cited in the 2004 best-seller The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman for his "citizen journalism," including work exposing CBS News' fraudulent report on President George W. Bush's Air National Guard service. Bill can be reached at bill.ardolino@gmail.com.

Wes Bruer monitors and reports on terrorists and terror-related activities in the US for The Long War Journal, and also assists with LWJ’s communications and news media. He graduated from the University of Georgia’s School of Public & International Affairs with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and currently works in politics and resides in Georgia. He intends to pursue graduate studies in international affairs with an emphasis on Middle Eastern affairs.

Matt DuPee

Matt DuPee has independently studied political and security events happening in Afghanistan since 1999. Mr. DuPee worked as the managing editor for Afgha.com since 2004. Mr. DuPee earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Video Production from Point Park University and received intelligence analyst training from Neumann College. He is currently enrolled in the Master of Arts program in Regional Security Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School. He now serves as a Research Assistant with the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies and continues his research on political, security, and geographical issues pertaining to Afghanistan. He also serves as an assistant to the web and journal editor for the program.

Mr. DuPee’s articles have been published in a variety of publications including the Frontier Pots, the Middle East Times, e-Ariana, The Center for Conflict and Peace Studies, and others. His work was cited in the Military Review's May-June 2008 edition, in an article titled “The Taliban: An Organizational Analysis.” He also participated in post-production research for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary, “Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear,” broadcast in the spring of 2008. His work was previously cited in the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute article, “The Taliban’s propaganda activities: How well is the Afghan insurgency communicating and what is it saying?”.

Described as “a rising star in the counterterrorism community” by the International Herald Tribune, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the director of its Center for Terrorism Research. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in World Politics at the Catholic University of America. Gartenstein-Ross’s primary research interest is homegrown terrorism and radicalization. He co-authored two reports in 2009 examining these phenomena, Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. and Terrorism in the West 2008. His other major research interests include jihadist ideology, al-Qaeda conflict zones (with a focus on Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan, and Somalia), and energy security.

In addition to his academic research on terrorism, Gartenstein-Ross seeks to craft practical solutions to some of the field’s more vexing problems. To that end, his consulting work has included live hostage negotiations, story development for major media companies, and high-end research services. He frequently leads training for the US military and federal, state, and local law enforcement, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, and US Army Central Command (from which he received a Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace Support Excellence Award). Gartenstein-Ross has also served as a Subject Matter Expert designing and delivering training for the US State Department’s Office of Antiterrorism Assistance, and he was recently an expert witness in a successful asylum case in which the asylee feared retribution from Somalia’s Shabaab terror group due to his family’s support of the country’s transitional federal government.

Gartenstein-Ross’s writings on the war on terror have appeared in Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Weekly Standard, The Hindustan Times, The National Post (Canada), The Washington Times, Middle East Quarterly, and many other publications. He has published four monographs, co-edited the book From Energy Crisis to Energy Security (FDD Press 2008), and wrote a memoir entitled My Year Inside Radical Islam (Tarcher/Penguin 2007).

George Gorman reports and provides analysis on Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for The Long War Journal. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from Evergreen State College, where he conducted research in US foreign policy, European Union policy, oil politics, and Middle East studies and political Islam. George has lived in Germany and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. .

Austin Knuppe is currently a research assistant at the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University. Previously, Austin has worked at a number of think tanks in Washington, D.C., as well as at the Paul Henry Center for the Study of Religion and Politics. He is an honors graduate of Calvin College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and History. His senior honors thesis was on military privatization and defense contracting. Austin hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in international relations with an emphasis in security studies and wants to pursue a career in the diplomatic corps of the US State Department. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, he currently lives in western Michigan. Austin monitors Iran for The Long War Journal and also conducts research.

Alexander Mayer assists in analyzing counterterrorism efforts against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province for The Long War Journal. A Chicago native, Alex is currently a year-long fellow at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, and recently graduated summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Middle Eastern Studies. He will be pursuing his master's degree in Security Policy Studies with a focus on sub-state violence and terrorism at George Washington University beginning in 2010.

Jane Novak covers Yemen for The Long War Journal. The author of over 40 articles on Yemeni internal affairs, Jane is well known in Yemen where she has extensive contacts. Jane's website, Armies of Liberation, focused on Yemen, is banned by the Yemeni governmental Internet providers because of her in-depth reporting on sensitive topics. Jane appeared on Al Jazeera as an expert on Yemen. She authors an annual country report and a threat assessment on Yemen as well as an analysis of Yemen's Islamic insurgents. She is a contributing editor at World Press.org, a staff writer for Middle East Transparent, and has been published through out the Middle East and in the US. Jane can be reached at jane.novak@gmail.com.

Christopher Radin tracks the development of the Afghanistan National Security Force and publishes a quarterly status report at The Long War Journal. Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and started his career as an engineer at Intel Corporation. He has been a product marketing manager in Silicon Valley, California, for the past 15 years. Chris has had a lifelong interest in politics, international affairs, and the military, and has been an avid war gamer since 1975.

Bill Raymond is the owner of Minuteman Geo-Technologies. He has a strong interest in the history of US-Russian relations as well as current developments in Somalia and Iran. He is also getting his master’s degree in Intelligence Studies. Bill produces maps and other geographic data-sets for The Long War Journal's news reports.

Joe Sklut

Joe Sklut is a 2009 Truman Scholar and senior at Commonwealth College, the honors college at the University of Massachusetts. He studies history and political science, with a particular interest in American foreign policy. He intends to pursue graduate studies in international relations and national security studies. A former Congressional intern, Joe is also interested in pursuing a career in public service. Joe monitors Southeast Asia for The Long War Journal and also conducts research.

Benjamin Shapiro

Benjamin Shapiro conducts research and monitors the Caucasus region for The Long War Journal. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studies of the Middle East & Political Islam in 2008 from Evergreen State College. He studied for one year at the American University in Cairo where he focused on Political Islamicism. He set aside special emphasis for studying conflicts in Chechnya and the broader Caucasus region. He has extensive travel experience in the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the Caucasus, including conflict zones such as southern Lebanon, Yemen, the Buner and Swat valleys of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Ferghana Valley. He will be applying for graduate programs in related studies in 2010.