Mark Moyar

Mark Moyar is the author of several books, including Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965, and A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq. He is a senior fellow at the Joint Special Operations University and the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a member of the Hoover Institution Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict. From 2004 to 2010, he served as a professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University, where he held the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism. He has also taught at Texas A&M University, Ohio State University, Cambridge University, and the Foreign Service Institute. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. He also makes frequent media appearances and speaks at a wide range of public and private institutions around the world. Mark lives in Washington, D.C.