Dominic Streatfeild is an author, freelance journalist and documentary maker based in the UK who specialises in military and security issues.
Streatfeild's television work includes BBC2's Exocet detailing MI6 and the SAS’s clandestine war for the Falkland Islands and exposing the real reasons for the loss of HMS Sheffield, the Discovery Channel's series Age of Terror, examining the roots of political violence and a 2010 documentary for the Discovery Channel Rescued: The Chilean Mine Story, detailing the attempts to rescue 33 Chilean miners trapped in the mine near Copiapó in northern Chile.
Streatfeild studied at King's College London, has served in the British Armed Forces, worked for the BBC and as an independent documentary maker and journalist.
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control (ISBN 0340831618, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) is Streatfeild's third book and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Award in 2007.
A chapter from the book Stuff Happens was published in the Guardian Newspaper [2] in January 2011 detailing the failure of US Forces to secure the explosives from the weapons store at Al Qa'qaa.