Katharine Cornell Gorka served as a presidential appointee in the Office of Policy at the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on strategies preventing terrorism and targeted violence. She was president of Threat Knowledge Group from 2014 to 2017, providing expertise and training on irregular warfare and terrorism to the FBI, US Army Special Forces, Marine Corps, and law enforcement. From 2009 to 2014 she was executive director of the Westminster Institute, which conducted research and education on threats posed by extremist ideologies. She co-edited the volume, Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism.
Mike Gonzalez is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He writes on a variety of subjects, including critical theory, critical race theory, identity politics, education, and foreign policy. He spent the better part of two decades as a journalist, clocking 11 years with the Wall Street Journal all over the world. He joined the administration of President George W. Bush and worked in the State Department’s European Bureau. In his first foreign assignment, Gonzalez was arrested and expelled from Panama by the dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega. The following year, 1989, he traveled with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Today, he devotes nearly all his passion to defending the US and the West in general from systemic overhaul and cultural genocide—thus this book.