The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

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 ofForeign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense. Ricks covered the U.S. military forThe Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat atThe Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. 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 Gamble, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.