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Linda Robinson is currently Author in Residence at the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Her book about the U.S. Army Special Forces, Masters of Chaos, was a New York Times bestseller. She has made extended reporting trips to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11 and received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defense in 2005. Ms. Robinson has reported on military, national security and international issues for U.S. News & World Report and was Senior Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. She is a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Linda Robinson is the author most recently of a book on the Iraq war, Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq. A Foreign Affairs bestseller and one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2008, the book is a chronicle and analysis of the political dynamics and major decisions of the war, the evolution of political-military strategy and tactics in 2007-08, and the endgame options. She is also author of Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces, a New York Times bestseller about Army Special Forces in irregular wars and conventional operations from Just Cause and Desert Storm through Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

She is a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton on national security and interagency issues, and writes and lectures to a wide variety of audiences on irregular warfare and insurgency, leadership, and media and communications issues. She is a regular speaker at numerous civilian and military educational institutions. During 2008, she was Author in Residence, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Merrill Center for Strategic Studies.

From 2001 through 2007, Ms. Robinson was a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, covering national security and foreign policy for the magazine. She reported extensively on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at all levels from the command headquarters to units stationed in such violent areas as Adhamiya, Ameriya and Khost. She authored numerous cover stories on the Iraq war, U.S. counter-terrorism strategy, special operations forces, intelligence reform, flaws in the military disability evaluation system, and the hunt for bin Laden. She received Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defense in June 2005.

Ms. Robinson was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2000-01. From 1989 to 2000, she covered Latin America and the Caribbean, including six insurgencies in Central America, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, other political conflicts, military interventions in Panama and Haiti, drug trafficking, and democratic transitions. The recipient of the highest journalism award for coverage of the region, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she traveled to Cuba 25 times and interviewed Fidel Castro for over 50 hours, and spent weeks on the frontlines of Colombia's war with guerrillas, armed forces and U.S. Army Special Forces.

She was also Senior Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine, a Senior Consulting Fellow for the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and a Hoover Institution Media Fellow. She is a longtime member of the IISS and the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Robinson lives in Northern Virginia with her husband.