Vlahos, Michael

MICHAEL VLAHOS has spent his life thinking and writing about war and culture -- from service in the Navy, CIA, State, and his thirty-year tie to The Johns Hopkins University: first as Director of Security Studies at the Nitze School, and then with the Applied Physics Laboratory, where he is now a Fellow and Principal. His nine earlier books and monographs include The BLUE Sword: The United States Navy and the American Mission 1919-1941 (1980), and Terror's Mask: Insurgency Within Islam (2003).