Steven Har­tov is the co-author of the New York Times best­seller In the Com­pa­ny of Heroes, as well as The Night Stalk­ers and Afghanistan on the Bounce. For six years he served as Edi­tor-in-Chief of Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Report. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, and most recent­ly the His­to­ry Chan­nel​’s Secret Armies. A for­mer Mer­chant Marine sailor, Israeli Defense Forces para­troop­er and spe­cial oper­a­tor, he is cur­rent­ly a Task Force Com­man­der in the New York Guard. He lives in New Jersey