Nathaniel Fick/Definition

President and previously Chief Operating Officer Center for a New American Security; United States Marine Corps officer in Afghanistan and Iraq; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; civilian instructor at the Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Academy; spoke at 2008 Democratic National Convention and later served on the Obama administration Presidential Transition Team at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Author of the 2005 New York Times bestseller One Bullet Away, required reading for Marine officers deploying to United States Central Command; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies