With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a
private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books
on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages,
including The Revenge of Geography- What the Map Tells Us About
Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon- The Indian
Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts- A Journey
Through History; and Warrior Politics- Why Leadership Demands a
Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic
for more than a quarter-century. In 2011 and 2012, Foreign Policy
magazine named Kaplan among the world's "Top 100 Global
Thinkers."
From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has
been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in
Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960
Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S.
Naval Academy, Annapolis.
"Robert Kaplan [is] a scholarly and adventurous journalist.... He draws attention to long-term trends that other writers have little noted." - The New York Times "Soldiers of God is a thoughtful, insightful, highly readable book. Battlefield smart, rock solid." -Dan Rather "Affecting and informative.... [Kaplan] answer[s] a number of important political questions."-The New Yorker
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