W. Thomas Smith Jr. is the author of six books, and his articles have appeared in USA TODAY, George, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, National Review Online (NRO), CBS News, and The Washington Times. A former U.S. Marine infantry leader, parachutist, and shipboard counterterrorism instructor, Smith writes about military/defense issues and has covered conflict in the Balkans, on the West Bank, in Iraq and Lebanon. He has served on the adjunct faculty at the University of South Carolina's School of Journalism, and he is a military technical consultant for The New Technology of War, a documentary film series produced by Popular Mechanics magazine. Smith is director of the Counterterrorism Research Center of the Family Security Foundation, a contributing editor with NavySEALs.com, and a former executive editor of World Defense Review. He is one of the founding writers for NRO's The Tank. Visit W. Thomas Smith Jr. online at uswriter.com http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:48:49 GMT Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:48:49 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Years ago, my then-girlfriend urged me to read John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. So I did. It was an interesting read. But it was really nothing I and any other red-blooded American male didn't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/07/25/kathleen_parkers_quest_to_save_the_males 25d1cecc-6f07-4f68-9f62-2d3989a04a8b Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:48:49 GMT In their new book, FLEECED, political pundit Dick Morris and attorney-coauthor Eileen McGann (yes, Morris and McGann are married), expose companies - both foreign and domestic - U.S. media powerhouses, an ineffective... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/06/26/dick_morris_on_the_fleecing_of_america b1c966b2-95aa-484a-a594-43a09c03e732 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:56:18 GMT Hezbollah - the Lebanon-based terrorist organization - has scored another victory: This one, political. It's barely been a week since Hezbollah's campaign of terror against the Lebanese people ended with a victory for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/05/21/hezbollah_scores_political_win,_but_resistance_groups_forming cf07d8d2-2fef-4bfb-a0e2-cce236709ce9 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:29:48 GMT Hezbollah - Iran's Lebanon-based terrorist legion - may have bitten off more than it can chew in its recent attacks against pro-government forces in Lebanon. They've certainly underestimated the tenacity of the latter... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/05/13/bloodying_irans_foreign_legion a8ccee00-8e6e-4982-8c09-2665a95997f3 Tue, 13 May 2008 15:48:36 GMT [Saturday marked one of the most important anniversaries in our nation's history. Following is what I had to say about it three years ago at World Defense Review, and it is just as relevant today.] April is a month... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/04/20/"disperse_ye_rebels,_ye_villains,_disperse!" 80faffd4-bdf2-435f-ab34-106bfc26279c Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:09:25 GMT In the summer of 1968, 31-year-old U.S. Navy Lt. Commander John S. McCain III - a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese POW camp - was offered by his captors a chance to go home. McCain's father, Adm. John S. McCain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/04/06/why_the_msm_is_dumbfounded_by_mccain's_refusal_to_go_home d17a6240-b45a-4f0f-b5c3-12f4571374c8 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:43:48 GMT Analysts with MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believe an elite force of Hamas fighters in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon will launch a coordinated attack against Israel within a few months, says author and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/03/18/jihadisms_dangerous_liasons e4f893e7-5936-490c-87df-4585f952adba Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT In what the Jerusalem Post refers to as "an uncommon act of journalistic contrition," the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has issued a public apology "to anyone who was offended" by its reference of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/02/19/turning_a_terrorist_into_a_cult_hero 0e2999ab-034d-4efa-b8de-c0461b5fa2ab Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:47:34 GMT Arrest warrants were issued Saturday for 11 Lebanese soldiers over the shooting deaths of several Hezbollah and Amal rioters during last week's clashes in Beirut (the clashes instigated by Hezbollah, which also spread... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/02/03/hezbollah_trying_to_demoralize_the_lebanese_army d78b4a5c-c623-458f-8ac8-6f6b4c691d97 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:57:44 GMT For years it's been reported that Hezbollah - the Lebanese-based Shiia terrorist organization that by any military standards fields one of the world's most formidable "terrorist armies" - has been receiving money from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/01/28/hezbollah's_bags_of_cash 3fded9e1-70bc-4c61-a470-2a56e418842b Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT On the morning of October 21, 1805, a force of some 33 British warships sailed in two columns toward a 41-ship French-Spanish fleet - the teeth of Napoleon's Navy - off Spain's Cape Trafalgar. The allied fleet... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2007/12/26/"duty"_as_a_new_years_resolution 5c810807-b9e9-4034-af4b-2a3aadf8d871 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:22:57 GMT It's one thing to be embroiled in the recent media circus surrounding my reporting from Lebanon; it's quite another to learn that in the midst of that circus - though having nothing to do with it - one of my... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2007/12/14/they_killed_general_hajj e405352e-fdae-4a10-b4e9-dcfdcf12efff Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:26:32 GMT Lebanon is a "wild place," so-said a counterterrorism expert in a personal conversation with me days before former Lebanese president Emile Lahoud stepped down and declared the army in charge of that troubled... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2007/11/26/lebanon_is_a_wild_place db58b7a4-25fe-4550-b614-ff9867876d90 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:59:22 GMT Lebanon - one of the most critical fronts in the war on terror - is on the brink of a full-blown shooting war. Few Americans living or traveling outside of that country seem to have any prescient understanding of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2007/10/26/lebanon_inching_closer_to_war d6c42ab4-e28f-44cf-b844-9b5defd78901 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT Dear Michael, Watching you grow into a man has been nothing less than humbling: joyous in ways almost impossible to describe, yet somehow wishing you were still the little boy who once traipsed with me through the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2007/06/11/advice_to_my_nephew_on_becoming_a_man 3fad0249-1ad6-43ca-ab14-d4ba2427a873 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:02:57 GMT