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Date	Lecture
Tuesday, March 15 2011	“Why our generals were more successful in World War II than in Korea, Vietnam or Iraq/Afghanistan”
Thursday March 17, 2011	How O.P. Smith (UC Berkeley class of 1996) saved 15,000 Marines”

Thomas E. Ricks is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Concurrently with his duties at CNAS, Ricks writes an online blog for ForeignPolicy.com called, “The Best Defense,” serves as contributing editor for Foreign Policy.

Prior to becoming a Senior Fellow, Ricks was affiliated with CNAS as a Senior Writer in Residence, at which time he completed his new book, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-08, published in February 2009, by The Penguin Press.

Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for 17 years. He has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and I

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Ricks, Thomas E. 1955- (Thomas Edwin Ricks, Tom Ricks)

PERSONAL:

Born September 25, 1955, in Beverly, MA; son of David Frank and Anne Ricks; married Mary Catherine Giblin, October 10, 1981. Education:Yale University, B.A., 1977.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Silver Springs, MD. Office—The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20071; Wall Street Journal, 1025 Connecticut Ave. NW, Ste. 800, Washington, DC 20036-5419.

CAREER:

Writer, journalist, editor, and educator. Lingnan College, Hong Kong, instructor, 1977-79; Wilson Quarterly, assistant editor, 1979-81; Wall Street Journal, reporter, 1982-85, deputy Miami bureau chief, 1986, reporter, Washington, DC, 1987-89, feature editor, Washington, DC, 1989-92, Pentagon correspondent, 1992-99; Washington Post, military correspondent, 2000—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Pulitzer Prize for national reporting (as member of Wall Street Journal reporting team) for series of articles on how the U.S. Military might change to meet twenty-first century demands, 2000; Pulitzer Prize for reporting (as member of Washington Post reporting tea

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Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

American journalist and author (born 1955)

Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955)^[5] 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 U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He previously wrote a blog for Foreign Policy^[6]^[7] and is a member of the Center for a New American Security,^[8] 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 several nonfiction books including 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