📖 Overview
Sean Naylor is a military journalist and author who specializes in covering special operations forces and modern warfare. He spent over two decades as a defense correspondent for Army Times, where he reported on military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones.
Naylor has written two major works of military non-fiction that examine recent American military operations. His first book chronicles Operation Anaconda, the 2002 battle in Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley. His second book provides an in-depth look at Joint Special Operations Command and its counterterrorism missions.
His reporting draws from extensive interviews with military personnel, classified documents, and firsthand observation of military operations. Naylor's background as a defense journalist gives him access to sources within the special operations community that inform his detailed accounts of modern military campaigns.