Tom Ricks
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Ricks in 2007, posing with his book Fiasco
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Thomas Edwin Ricks September 25, 1955 Beverly, Massachusetts, United States |
| Education | BA |
| Alma mater | Yale University, 1977 |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, editor, and educator |
| Employer | Center for a New American Security |
| Known for | critique of U.S. national security policy, especially Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| Awards | 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (on Wall Street Journal team) 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (on Washington Post team) Society of Professional Journalists Award for best feature reporting 2007 Distinguished alumnus of Scarsdale High School |
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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.
Ricks was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York and Afghanistan, one of six children. He is the son of Anne and David Frank Ricks, a professor of psychology. He attended the American International School in Kabul (1968–1970), including his freshman year of high school. He graduated from Scarsdale High School (1973).
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