Youssef Aboul-Enein is a US Navy Medical Service Corps Commander, who since 9-11 has advised on counter-terrorism and Middle East affairs at the highest levels of the defense department and intelligence community. He has trained thousands of deploying US military personnel in his over two-decade military career and has taught graduate level courses on Islam and the Middle East at both the National Intelligence University and National Defense University. Joseph T. Stanik, a retired U.S. Navy officer, is the author of ""Swift and Effective Retribution"": The U.S. Sixth Fleet and the Confrontation with Qaddafi and El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi. A 1978 graduate of the Naval Academy, he is a long-term teacher of history at the secondary and collegiate levels.