THOMAS E. RICKS
(Thomas Edwin Ricks)
Franks as the Commander of U. S. forces in the Iraq War always appeared to be in command of the forces and the facts and made an excellent impression and had a strong public image. But he was poor on the accuracy of his details and his optimism of the way the Iraq War and occupation were going were woefully misleading.
Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks is an American journalist and author who specializes in the military and national security issues. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of teams from the Wall Street Journal (2000) and Washington Post (2002). He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He previously wrote a blog for Foreign Policy and is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank.
