Meet The Team

ABOUT NADEEM IQBAL

Founder & Analyst

EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE ANALYSIS.

Nadeem Iqbal is a former U.S. intelligence and defense professional with more than fifteen years of experience in all-source intelligence, political-military analysis, defense policy, insurgency, and international security.

His career included extensive analytical work on the Middle East and South Asia, as well as assignments involving broader international security issues.

He served as an intelligence analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, worked on Syria and Middle Eastern defense policy within the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy, served as a Syria military analyst during a rotation at CIA Headquarters, supported strategic intelligence work with Joint Special Operations Command, and served as an Asia-Pacific Watch Officer at the National Military Command Center.

Nadeem also completed five overseas deployments across Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tal Shiar brings the analytical discipline developed through that career to a public platform focused on understanding an increasingly interconnected world.