Thom Shanker Biography

Thom Shanker is a journalist for The New York Times who covers the Pentagon and foreign policy. He frequently spends time with troops embedded in Afghanistan and Iraq. He spent eleven years working abroad for the Chicago Tribune, headquartered in Moscow, Berlin, and the former Yugoslavia, until being named Tribune international editor, before joining the Times in 1997. Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda, which will be released in August, is co-authored by him and Eric Schmitt. The book describes how innovative counterterrorism tactics established by George W. Bush and developed by Barack Obama were effectively used in the preparation and execution of the spectacular operation in May 2011 that resulted in Osama bin Laden's death.

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