Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its Future of War project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of
Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he covered
U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including
The Generals,
The Gamble, and the number one
New York Times bestseller
Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His newest book,
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight For Freedom, is a
New York Times bestseller.
