Akshat Upadhyay is a serving army officer and holds a double Master’s degree in History and Political Science as well as an MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies from Punjab University. He has won the second prize in the United Services Institution of India Gold Medal Essay Competition in 2011. He is the author of numerous articles published in Indian magazines with global circulation and has written extensively on terrorism, social media and social movements, South Asia and the Middle East. One of his articles on lone wolf terrorism, published by CLAWS as Manekshaw Paper No 69, has been received very warmly by institutions such as George Washington University, George C Marshall Centre and the NATO Defence College.