Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for theWashington Postfrom 2000 through 2008 and was on the staff of theWall Street Journalfor seventeen years before that. He reported on American military operations in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he is also the author of several books, includingThe Generals, The Gamble,Churchill & Orwell, and the number-oneNew York TimesbestsellerFiasco, which...

