Thomas E Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks is a Washington Post Pentagon and military correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner. Ricks 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. Ricks is author of the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq as well as Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty. Most recently, he has written a follow-up to Fiasco entitled The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, released February 10, 2009 by Penguin Press.