Benjamin Runkle Author

Benjamin Runkle is a former paratrooper and presidential speechwriter who holds a doctorate from Harvard and a Bronze Star from Operation Iraqi Freedom. His government posts included the National Security Council, the House Armed Services Committee, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. He has previously been a political scientist with the RAND Corporation and now is a senior fellow with Artis International, a think tank working at the intersection of behavioral science and political violence. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, the Jerusalem Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Tablet Magazine, Joint Forces Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, The Hill, RealClearDefense.com, WarOnTheRocks.com, and Small Wars Journal. Runkle is the author of Wanted Dead or Alive: Manhunts from Geronimo to Bin Laden. The Washington Times called it “colorful, fast-paced”; “his writing is readable without be