Andrew Wiest is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is co-editor of "War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Combat" (NYU Press, 2001) and author or co-author of numerous books, including "Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited, Atlas of World War II", and "The Vietnam War, 1959 1975". He lives in Hattiesburg, MS.