Thomas E. Ricks (journalist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

American journalist

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1955

Place of Birth: Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist and author who specializes in the military and national security issues.
He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of teams from the Wall Street Journal (2000) and Washington Post (2002).
He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
He currently writes a blog for Foreign Policy and is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank.
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 the author of the non-fiction books Making the Corps (1997); the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq (2006) and its follow-up, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009); and The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today (2012).
He also penned a novel, A Soldier's Duty, in 2001.