Scott Taylor is a Canadian journalist who specializes in military and war reporting. His coverage has included wars in Cambodia, Africa, the Balkans, and most recently Iraq. Taylor is a former private in the Canadian Forces, and is now the editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps,[1] a military magazine.
Taylor has aroused a certain amount of controversy; described as "fiercely opinionated", his articles have attracted criticism for their often strongly polemical slant.[2] He has been critical of the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence, and has also written in opposition to Western involvement in the Kosovo War and Iraq War. Taylor is a regular op-ed contributor to the Halifax Herald newspaper.
In 2004, Taylor and a Turkish colleague Zeynep Tugrul were kidnapped in Iraq by Ansar al-Islam, a radical Islamist group and held for five days.[3]
Taylor has written several books, including Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America's War Against Iraq, in which he suggests, contrary to claims by the George W. Bush administration, that the majority of the Iraqi population are strongly opposed to the US being there, and Inat: Images of Serbia and the Kosovo Conflict, in which he argues that NATO involvement in that conflict was unnecessary and that western media coverage of the conflict was biased against the Serbs.
He has recently published his memoir titled Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting.
Taylor appears in Boris Malagurski's documentary film The Weight of Chains in which he chronicles his experiences in the Balkans during the 1990s.