JACK STRADLEY

Jack Stradley spent twenty years as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer specializing in reconnaissance, counter-terror, and counter-drug operations. He commanded the Marine Corps' in-extremis hostage recovery force in the Western Pacific and later served as an exchange officer with the Chilean Marine Corps' commandos. As a Latin American Foreign Area Officer, he traveled throughout the region before devoting his final years of active duty to implementing the Marine Corps' riverine counter-drug strategy in Colombia and Peru.

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After leaving active duty, Jack co-founded Crucible, building it from a niche training company into a global security firm acquired by Kroll, Inc. Crucible operated in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2003 to 2008, and Jack traveled regularly to both countries to oversee operations.

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In 2014, Jack founded Exlog Global, providing risk management and crisis response services in conflict zones and disaster areas worldwide. His teams operated in Libya during the post-revolution instability. In 2017 after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Exlog conducted relief operations across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, air-evacuating over a hundred people from St. Maarten and St. Kitts and chartering a ship to evacuate more than 1,000 students, faculty, and staff from Dominica—along with their pets. The company conducted similar operations in the Abacos after Hurricane Dorian in 2019. During the fall of Kabul in August 2021, Exlog ran a 37-day crisis operation that evacuated at-risk individuals and families. In 2022, his teams conducted ground evacuations from Ukraine, moving people out of the path of the Russian advance.

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Jack retired from Exlog in 2025 to write fiction. Beyond the Wire: Libya Shattered draws on his firsthand experience operating in post-revolution Libya.