Jason S. Ridler holds a PhD in war studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and is a former visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous articles on special forces, unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency, and military history. He is an adjunct professor at Norwich University and a teaching fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Jason Ridler’s Mavericks of War is that rarest of books, a visceral page-turner which is also a deep examination of an overlooked human resource in war and international affairs—the expert outsider who works from inside while the ambassadors and the generals pace outside the walls.

Jason S. Ridler holds a PhD in war studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and is a former visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous articles on special forces, unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency, and military history. He is an adjunct professor at Norwich University and a teaching fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Jason Ridler’s Mavericks of War is that rarest of books, a visceral page-turner which is also a deep examination of an overlooked human resource in war and international affairs—the expert outsider who works from inside while the ambassadors and the generals pace outside the walls.

Jason S. Ridler holds a PhD in war studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and is a former visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous articles on special forces, unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency, and military history. He is an adjunct professor at Norwich University and a teaching fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Jason Ridler’s Mavericks of War is that rarest of books, a visceral page-turner which is also a deep examination of an overlooked human resource in war and international affairs—the expert outsider who works from inside while the ambassadors and the generals pace outside the walls.