James W. Morrison served nearly 30 years in the U. S. Department of Defense, three as a U.S. Army officer and nearly 27 as a civilian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, he directed offices dealing with international security policy. He is a graduate of Indiana and Columbia Universities and the National War College and served as a visiting fellow at the National Defense University, where he wrote and had published two short books on international affairs dealing with Russia and NATO. He has devoted much of his retirement to creative writing a...