English | 2007 | ISBN: 1585661686 | 354 pages | True PDF | 4.89 MB

William Arkin is an author, journalist and analyst who has been working on the subject of national security for over 50 years. He currently works for Newsweek magazine as a senior national security correspondent. His unique career spans an early assignment in Army intelligence in Cold War Berlin to being a best-selling author today. He has written articles that have appeared on the front page of The New York Times,The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. He has worked as a military advisor to the most influential non-governmental human rights and environmental organizations, equally at ease heading Greenpeace International's response to the first Gulf War or teaching at the U.S. Air Force's premier strategy school. He is weirdly proud to say that he spent the night in Saddam General Hospital after being injured by an unexploded cluster bomb in Iraq and that some of his fondest memories were picking through the rubble of Slobodan Milosevic's Belgrade villa and Mullah Omar's compound in Afghanistan. He is probably the only person alive who can say that he has written for both The Nation magazine and Marine Corps Gazette.