Tom Ricks
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 12 Noon
Topic: “Iraq and Afghanistan: How Screwed are We?”
Tom Ricks is a Pulitzer Prize winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He writes a blog at ForeignPolicy.com, and is a member of a defense policy think tank.
He lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University’s Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its sequelThe Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, Making the Corps, and the novel A Soldier’s Duty.