WILLIAM M. ARKIN is one of America’s premier military experts, having started his forty-year career in national security serving in army intelligence in West Berlin during the Cold War. He has written more than a dozen books and been instrumental in countless exposés. At the Washington Post he conceived and coauthored the landmark “Top Secret America” investigation, and cowrote the national bestseller of the same name. He has been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and national security consultant to the New York Times and NBC News. He is also the author, most recently, of American Coup. He lives in Vermont.