About the Author

Gareth Porter is an investigative journalist, historian, author, and analyst of U.S. foreign and military policy. Porter has written four books, including his seminal work on Vietnam, Perils of Dominance, and his writing has been published in such outlets as Al-Jazeera English, The Nation, Inter Press Service, the Huffington Post, and Truthout. He was the 2012 winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Investigative Journalism.