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W. Thomas Smith, Jr.W. Thomas Smith, Jr. (born April 30, 1959) is an American author, editor, and journalist. His work has appeared in many of the nation's leading newspapers and magazines. He is a columnist for MilitaryWeek and a frequent contributor to National Review Online.
Education and Military ServiceSmith graduated from the University of South Carolina (USC) in 1982 with a baccalaureate degree in history. He then served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry leader, parachutist , and shipboard special weapons security and counterterrorism instructor. Following his hitch in the Corps in 1987, he served on a para-military SWAT team in the nuclear industry. Soon thereafter, he began his career as a journalist. CareerSmith has written for numerous publications, including USA TODAY, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The New York Post, and Agencia EFE (the world's largest Spanish-language news wire). In 1998, he co-authored a George magazine feature with John F. Kennedy Jr. (Smith interviewed Gen. William C. Westmoreland in Charleston, S.C. - Kennedy interviewed Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Vietnam). The interviews were published together as a single piece on the Vietnam War in the November 1998 issue of George. As a war correspondent, Smith reported from battlefields in both the Balkans in 1995 and in the Middle East in 1997, and he covered the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks from ground zero in New York. Also during the 1990's, he worked as editor of a business magazine, a contract media relations director, a publicist for NBA basketball player Vince Carter and other professional athletes, and was the sole columnist for head football coach Lou Holtz's official website during Holtz's inaugural season at USC. Smith's first book, Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency, was published in 2003. He has since written three other books, all military titles (see bibliography). In addition to his writing and reporting, Smith has been interviewed by and quoted in a variety of national and international publications. He also has been interviewed by NBC, CBS, and ABC television affiliates and numerous nationally syndicated and international radio programs. Smith is a contributing writer for A Nation Changed, a book commemorating the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (published by U.S. News & World Report). He is the technical editor and foreword writer for the second edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Iraq by Joseph Tragert , and he is the technical editor and "special afterword" writer for Contract Warriors by Fred Rosen . Smith teaches "breaking into national print" at the Buckley School of Written Expression. He serves as adjunct professor at USC's College of Journalism and Mass Communications (where he has taught "magazine writing," "national print writing," and "public opinion and propaganda."), and he has lectured groups and conferences from Fortune 500 companies to the U.S. Armed Forces. Smith writes a column, Beyond the DropZone, for MilitaryWeek; and he is a frequent contributor to National Review Online (NRO). At least one of his NRO pieces was re-published by the U.S. House Armed Services Committee. Others have been re-published by the U.S. Department of Defense. A member of the American Society of Journalists & Authors and the National Press Club, Smith serves on the advisory board of the Southern Literature Council of Charleston. BooksBY W. THOMAS SMITH, JR.
Magazines and NewspapersSmith has contributed to the following newspapers and magazines:
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