Scott Taylor

Scott Taylor, a former professional soldier, has been editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps, an Ottawa-based magazine celebrated for its unflinching scrutiny of the Canadian military, since 1988.


During the past 16 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, and most recently from Iraq, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, and Macedonia.


Since August 2000, Taylor has made a total of 20 trips into Iraq to report on the effects of the UN sanctions, the ravages of depleted uranium following the 1991 Gulf War, and the heightening tensions with the United States. In March 2003, during his last trip prior to the United States’ intervention, Scott Taylor was asked to leave Iraq for fear of his being a spy for the Israeli Mossad. Following the swift U.S. victory, Taylor has returned frequently to Iraq to view first-hand the ongoing humanitarian crisis plaguing this still embattled country.


Scott Taylor regularly appears in the Canadian media as a military analyst, and is the recipient of the 1996 Quill Award for outstanding work in the field of Canadian communications. That same year, he also won the Alexander MacKenzie Award for journalistic excellence.


A weekly columnist for the Halifax Herald and Windsor Star, Taylor is also a columnist for the Osprey newspaper chain and has contributed to the Ottawa Citizen, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Sun, Reader’s Digest, and Canwest-Global television network.


Taylor is also the author of five bestsellers – Tarnished Brass: Crime and Corruption in the Canadian Military and Tested Mettle: Canada’s Peacekeepers at War (both with Brian Nolan), Inat: Images of Serbia, the Kosovo Conflict and Diary of an Uncivil War: The Violent Aftermath of the Kosovo Conflict and Spinning on the Axis of Evil: Americas War against Iraq.


Scott Taylor has just released his sixth book dealing with his experiences in northern Iraq called Among the 'Others': the forgotten Turkmen of Iraq, which was first published in October 2004 by Esprit de Corps Books.