John Ferris is Professor of History and Fellow at The Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He received an MA (1980) and a PhD (1986) in War Studies from King's College London. He has published four books and one hundred academic articles or chapters in books, on diplomatic, intelligence and military history, as well as contemporary strategy and intelligence. His books have been published in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom: they have been translated into French and Japanese. He comments in national