The World's Most Threatening Terrorist Networks and Criminal Gangs

Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Michael T. Kindt is the Director of Counterterrorism Studies at the USAF CPC. He is currently serving temporarily in Afghanistan. Lt. Col. Kindt has a M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University and is licensed to practice clinical psychology in the state of Alabama. In 2006 he published a monograph entitled Building Population Resilience to Terror Attacks: Unlearned Lessons from Military and Civilian Experience (2006).

Dr. Jerrold M. Post is Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs and Director of the Political Psychology Program at The George Washington University. During his 21 year CIA career, he founded and directed the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior. Among his extensive publications are Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior (2004), and The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda (2007).

Dr. Barry R. Schneider is the Director of the USAF Counterproliferation Center (CPC) at Maxwell AFB, and is also a Professor of International Relations at the Air War College. Dr. Schneider specializes in WMD counterproliferation and nonproliferation issues as well as the profiles of adversary leaders and their strategic cultures. His numerous publications include (author) Future War and Counterproliferation: U.S. Military Responses to NBC Proliferation Threats (1999), and (contributor, co-editor) Avoiding the Abyss: Progress, Shortfalls and the Way Ahead in Combating WMD (2005).