Military Authors

Robert Benfer - Robert Benfer grew up in the small town of Kerrville, Texas, and joined the United States Army shortly after high school.  During his eight years of service as an Electronic Intelligence Interceptor/Analyst, he worked missions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Republic of Korea, Intelligence Center Pacific (IPAC) at Camp Smith, Hawaii, Augsburg, Germany, and the ARCENT TCAE in Saudi Arabia.  Click on the authors name for a list of published books by Robert Benfer.

General Wesley K. Clark USA (Ret) - General Wesley K. Clark, U.S.A. (Ret.), was Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, from 1997 to 2000 and is currently a military analyst for CNN. He served previously as director of strategic plans and policy for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon from 1994 to 1996 and was the lead military negotiator for the Bosnian Peace Accords at Dayton in 1995. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Click on the authors name for a list of published books by General Wesley Clark.

John Keegan - John Keegan was for many years senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and has been a fellow at Princeton University and a professor of history at Vassar College. He is the author of many military history books, including the acclaimed The Face of Battle and The Second World War. He lives in Wiltshire, England.  Click on the authors name for a list of published books by John Keegan.

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Kenneth M. Pollack - An Olin Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations.  From 1995 to 2001, he served as director for Gulf affairs at the National Security Council, where he was the principal working-level official responsible for implementation of U.S. policy toward Iraq.  Prior to his time in the Clinton administration, he spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst.  He is a graduate of Yale University and received a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He lives in Washington, D.C., and is director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.   Click on the authors name for a list of published books by Kenneth Pollack.

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John W. Thomason Jr -  (1893-1944). John W. Thomason, Jr., author, artist, and United States Marine Corps officer, was born in Huntsville, Texas, on February 28, 1893.  He entered the United States Marine Corps on April 6, 1917.  Thomason's military career began with battlefield action in World War I, in which he fought in five major engagements and fourteen battles, including Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, San Mihiel, Soissons, and Mont Blanc. His stations after the war included Cuba, Nicaragua, China, and the USS Rochester; he was an aide to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Col. Henry Roosevelt, worked at the Latin-American desk of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and was briefly involved in the Solomons campaign in World War II.  As a writer-artist, Thomason was an illustrator primarily of his own books.  Click on the authors name for a list of published books by John W. Thomason Jr.

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Bob Woodward - An assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, has been a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 30 years.  He has authored or coauthored eight No. 1 national nonfiction bestsellers.  They include four books on the presidency--All the President's Men (1974), The Final Days (1976), The Agenda (1994) and Shadow (1999)--and books on the Supreme Court (The Brethren, 1979), the Hollywood drug culture (Wired, 1984), the CIA (Veil, 1987) and the Pentagon (The Commanders, 1991).  He is also author of national bestsellers on the presidential campaign (The Choice, 1996) and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (Maestro, 2000).  He has two daughters, Tali and Diana, and lives is Washington, D.C., with his wife, Elsa Walsh, a writer for The New Yorker. Simon & Schuster.  Click on the authors name for a list of published books by Bob Woodard.