She is publisher of \"Iraq News,\" an on-line e-mail newsletter, and Iraq analyst for the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin.

Mylroie is the author of \"Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America\" (American Enterprise Institute Press). Recently published in paperback, as \"The War Against America\" (HarperCollins), the book has been hailed by, among others, former CIA Director, Jim Woolsey, who called it a \"brilliant and brave book,\" and former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Richard Perle, who wrote, \"Move over Tom Clancy, Laurie Mylroie has written the year's thriller.\" Mylroie's previous book, co-authored with Judith Miller, \"Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf,\" was a number one \"New York Times bestseller,\" and was translated into 13 languages.

Mylroie received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and her B.A. from Cornell University. She was an Assistant Professor in Harvard's Political Science Department, before becoming an Associate Professor in the Strategy Department at the U.S. Naval War College. Subsequently she was a member of the staff of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. She also served as advisor on Iraq to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign.

Her articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, Jane's Intelligence Review, The National Interest, The New Republic, and Newsweek, as well as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among others.

Mylroie has also served as a consultant to ABC News, the BBC, and \"Newsweek\" on terrorism.