Edward Luttwak

is a military consultant and formerly worked for an oil consultancy. He is a Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington and President of Servicios Agricolas Amazonas, a conservation cattle ranch in the Bolivian Amazon. He serves as consultant to the US National Security Council, the White House Chief of Staff, the US Department of Defense, US Army, US Air Force, US Marine Corps, Department of State, and several allied governments. His books include: Strategy: the Logic of War and Peace (Harvard U. Press); Turbocapitalism: winners and losers in the global economy; The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (John Hopkins U. Press) and The Pentagon and the Art of War. He was born in Transylvania in 1942 and educated in Sicily and Italy until age eleven.