Austin Bay is the author of three novels. His third novel, The Wrong Side of Brightness, was published by Putnam/Jove in June 2003. He has also co-authored four non-fiction books, to include A Quick and Dirty Guide to War: Third Edition (with James Dunnigan, Morrow, 1996). Bay writes a syndicated column on international affairs for Creators Syndicate. He is a commentator on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, covering foreign affairs but often addressing issues in Texas that have a national interest. Bay has appeared as a guest commentator on Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC and ABC News' "Nightline," as well as on numerous regional radio and TV shows. As a journalist, he has filed reports from throughout Europe, Central America, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He is a contributing editor to FYEO, an Internet foreign affairs newsletter found at www.StrategyPage.com, and writes a weblog on his home page, www.austinbay.net. Bay, who has had two commercial wargames published, worked for four years as a special consultant in wargaming in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1989-1993). He is a colonel (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve. In 2004, he was recalled to active duty and served in Iraq as chief of strategic initiatives, Multi-National Corps-Iraq (May-September 2004). He received the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Iraq. Bay also served on active duty in the Pentagon during Operation Desert Storm (1991). On active duty in the 1970s, Bay served in Germany as a tank platoon leader in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and as an assistant operations and chemical/nuclear defense officer in the headquarters of 1st Infantry Division's forward brigade group. (Goeppingen, Germany). While with 1st Infantry Division, his duties included liaison work with NATO allied units - in particular with West German, Canadian, and French forces. In 1995, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization sent him to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to observe anti-ballistic missile training exercises. In 1999, Bay accepted a special reserve tour in Guatemala, where he was deputy commander of a Hurricane Mitch recovery operation and medical relief mission. In October 2001, Bay served a two-week tour with Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. Bay has a bachelor of arts from Rice University (1973) and has a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University (1987). He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School and the U.S. Army War College. He currently teaches a course in strategy and strategic theory for the University of Texas' PLAN 2 undergraduate honors program. Recent projects include organizing a micro-development aid project for the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Texas. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In a humiliating example of self-inflicted electronic bugging, last week a live broadcast television microphone in Egyptian President Muhammed Morsi's Cairo office caught the president and Egypt's most senior political... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/06/12/no-denial-on-the-nile-egypt-threatens-ethiopian-dams-n1618107 0e2a5ec4-d954-4317-a9bd-31be22568dc8 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:01:00 GMT The late spring wave of mass domestic political protests in Turkey caught many observers by surprise. Moreover, the protests have rattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Surprise is understandable.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/06/05/protests-change-turkeys-political-landscape-a-report-from-istanbul-n1613168 8a5a2151-134d-47e8-9545-e9b9275280b0 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:01:00 GMT Fifteen months of warfare in the frost and fog of subarctic weather ought to be tough to forget. But seven decades after the fight for the Aleutian Islands reached its banzai climax on May 29, 1943, the mistake-plagued... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/05/29/remembering-the-aleutians-forgotten-battle-n1608118 deab62a9-fa9b-43d0-8882-4171022d3ea3 Wed, 29 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT In 2011, China had a gross domestic product of $7.3 trillion dollars, second only to America's $15 trillion GDP output -- at least according to official data. In 2011, System D had a GDP of $10 trillion, though that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/05/22/system-d-floating-economic-boats-beneath-the-surface-n1602917 cc56c4e8-a06a-44e2-982f-512fac8f71ea Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT In a column published on Sept. 18, 2012, I argued that verified tactical military details of the engagement, the iconic date itself, and subsequent, very explicit statements by Libyan government authorities, left no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/05/15/benghazi-revisited-pinocchios-for-the-dead-n1596805 ebf38c22-a926-4581-8e25-d7627114b980 Wed, 15 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT This past Sunday, China and India agreed to avoid turning the world's most dangerous border dispute into the world's most dangerous war -- at least temporarily. According to Indian sources, Chinese Peoples... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/05/08/the-global-stakes-in-the-sinoindian-frozen-war-n1590619 b6dd0540-1272-443c-828f-2a2784932402 Wed, 08 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT On April 25, Spanish police, at the request of Holland's national prosecutor's office, arrested Dutch citizen Sven Olaf Kamphuis. Kamphuis will likely face charges in Holland related to what Dutch officials describe... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/05/01/cybercrime-morphs-into-cyberwar-n1583570 92c05208-b91a-47b8-bc25-ab224f53d25c Wed, 01 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT On March 28, the U.N. Security Council approved the creation of a war-making-peacekeeping unit, a "specialized intervention brigade" designed to destroy the vicious rogue militias that plague the Democratic Republic of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/04/24/congo-complexity-will-test-un-offensive-peacekeeping-n1576675 ee8345c2-9826-4a89-929a-cd9fc45e7d3b Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT I have no idea who committed the terror attack in Boston and for what onerous reason. However, I do know that the technological and political dynamics extant in this week's massacre afflicted the late 19th century and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/04/17/2013-boston-terrors-19thcentury-roots-n1569883 12e01ecf-b17a-4789-9a3d-46be7791a1b3 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Everyone who knows that wealth underwrites all security arrangements should appreciate an unadorned but profoundly reverent epitaph for Margaret Thatcher posted this week on a national defense and military history... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/04/10/margaret-thatcher-the-complete-strategic-warrior-n1562858 5c17fb08-a658-4200-b928-4ea6d4cd5cad Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Propaganda campaigns inevitably experience the equivalent of a mass media Freudian slip, a moment so blatantly extreme their ostensibly crafted spiels of fear, hate and threat backfire and reveal an inconvenient truth... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/04/03/north-koreas-target-list-is-a-freudian-slip-n1556195 34c61762-bd5d-4ce4-aeda-dcafffe11768 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Shared concern with Syria's deterioration and potential fragmentation has spawned two promising diplomatic turnabouts: a rapprochement between Israel and Turkey and the prospect of peacefully ending Turkey's war with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/03/27/when-chaos-spurs-reconciliation-and-peace-n1550087 cb5952ab-d90b-41ec-bd3b-545324ee8031 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT "Who is it in the press who calls on me?" Julius Caesar asks in Act I of Shakespeare's play. "Beware the Ides of March," the prophetic Roman soothsayer wails. The dismissive dictator replies, "He is a dreamer; let us... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinBay/2013/03/20/ides-of-march-reversal-obama-vindicates-reagans-sdi-n1543384 84e1c012-65eb-424c-89c8-97b992d011e7 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT