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04/29/2009 - Thomas Ricks
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Date: April 29, 2009 7:30 P.M. Hyatt
Topic: The Gamble
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Thomas Ricks has covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post since 2000. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for 17 years.
He has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2000 for a series of articles on how the U.S. military might change to meet the new demands of the 21st century. Ricks also was part of a Washington Post team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Priize for reporting about the beginning of the U.S. counteroffensive against terrorism.
His book, FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, was published by Penguin Press in July 2006. His new book discusses the military leadership in Iraq. Born in Massachusetts in 1955, he grew up in New York and Afghanistan and graduated from Yale in 1977.
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