Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC, and a national correspondent for the Atlantic. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. He is the best-selling author of twelve books on international affairs and travel, which have been translated into many languages. His latest work is Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground. In the 1980s, Kaplan was the first American writer to warn in print about a future war in the Balkans. Former President Clinton and President George W. Bush are both readers of Kaplan’s books. Besides the Atlantic Monthly, Kaplan’s essays have appeared on the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Regiment, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Marines. He has lectured at military war colleges, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums. Kaplan has delivered the Secretary of State’s Open Forum Lecture at the U.S. State Department.
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