About the Author

Daniel Plesch is Visiting Fellow at the University of Keele and at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a writer and broadcaster on US foreign and military policy and the war on terror for such media as the BBC, CNN and the Guardian, and a columnist for Tribune. From 2001 to 2003 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Previously, he founded the British American Security Information Council in 1987 and directed it from Washington DC until 2001. He is a former vice-chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.