Laurie Mylroie

Laurie Mylroie

Laurie Mylroie is an internationally recognized expert on Iraq and terrorism.

Dr. Mylroie received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and her B.A. from Cornell. She was an Assistant Professor in Harvard's Political Science Department, before becoming an Associate Professor in the Strategy Department at the U.S. Naval War College. Subsequently, she was a member of the staff of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. She also served as advisor on Iraq to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign and has worked as a consultant on terrorism to the Departments of Defense and Energy; ABC News, the BBC, and Newsweek; as well as several law offices. She is presently an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and publisher of Iraq News.

She is also the author of Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein.s Unfinished War Against America (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2000). Published in paperback, as The War Against America (HarperCollins, 2001), the book was hailed by Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz: "argues powerfully"; and Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, "splendid and wholly convincing". J. Gilmore Childers, lead prosecutor in the World Trade Center bombing trial, described it as "work the U.S. government should have done".

Her first book, Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, (co-authored with Judith Miller) was a number one New York Times bestseller, translated into 13 languages.

Her articles have appeared in The American Spectator, The Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, Jane.s Intelligence Review, The National Interest, The New Republic, and Newsweek, as well as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among others.

Articles by Laurie Mylroie

"DON'T LOOK AT ME" NRO April 5, 2004
VERY AWKWARD FACTS Wall Street Journal April 2, 2004
WHAT INTELLIGENCE FAILURE IN IRAQ? Front Page Magazine February 5, 2004
MISHANDLING TERRORISM National Review Online January 23, 2004
SADDAM AND 9/11 FrontPageMagazine.com January 8, 2004
"AL QAEDA DUNNIT!" NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE November 24, 2003
EB-BOOK REVIEW: LAURIE MYLROIE'S "BUSH VS. THE BELTWAY" NATIONAL REVIEW OCTOBER 27, 2003 VOL. LV, NO. 20
NRO INTERROGATORY : BATTLING THE BELTWAY - LAURIE MYLROIE INTERVIEWED BY K. LOPEZ NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE September 11, 2003
The Baluch Connection Wall Street Journal March 18, 2003
The Circle of Terror National Review Online February 19, 2003
Understated National Review Online February 5, 2003
Another mistaken 'conceptzia' Jerusalem Post December 4, 2002
How Terror Investigations Can Go Awry Wall Street Journal December 26, 2001
The United States and the Iraqi National Congress Middle East Intelligence Bulletin March 2001