About
Originally from Macon, Georgia, Tony Schwalm spent much of his adult life as an Army officer, serving as a tank company commander in the First Gulf War in 1991 and leading Green Berets during the Haiti invasion in 1994. Retiring from the Army in 2004, he works as a consultant to the Department of Defense and lectures to business students at the University of South Florida on the merits of improvisation as learned in the world of guerrilla warfare. In 2009, his essay, Trek, won first prize at the Mayborn Literary Non-fiction Conference at the University of North Texas and was the basis for the book The Guerrilla Factory: the Making of Special Force Officers, the Green Berets published by Simon and Schuster in 2012. He makes his home in Tampa, Florida.
Featured Work
The Guerrilla Factory: the Making of Special Forces Officers, the Green Berets
With “a fresh, authentic voice” (Publishers Weekly), former Special Forces commander and instructor Tony Schwalm takes readers deep inside the grueling training on the notorious SF Q-course required for all Special Forces soldiers before they can join the elite Green Berets that defend our country in nontraditional operations.
