Scott Taylor, a former professional soldier, has been editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps, an Ottawa-based magazine since 1988. Since January 2007, Scott Taylor has made two unembedded trips into Afghanistan. In the course of those visits he has interviewed former warlords,

Taliban leaders, senior members of the Karzai administration, civilian aid workers, foreign contractors, ex-Special Forces troops and top NATO officials. Surprisingly, the one common theme re-iterated by all the widely disparate agencies interviewed is that international troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan within the next two years. Taylor has logged over one million air miles as a war correspondent reporting from such global hot spots as the Persian Gulf, Cambodia, Western Sahara, Croatia, Bosnia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Taylor also reported extensively on the war in Iraq until the situation there simply became too dangerous for foreign journalists. He endured 5 days of brutal captivity as a hostage of the Ansar al-Islam in Talafar in September 2004. Taylor regularly appears in the Canadian media as a military analyst and has a weekly column in the Chronicle-Herald newspaper.