Thomas E. Ricks
Journalist and military author
Tom Ricks is an American journalist and author who writes about the military and national security. He has twice won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a reporting team.
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American Born 1955 in Beverly, United States
About Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks was born on September 25, 1955, in Beverly, Massachusetts. He worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with colleagues in 2000 and 2002. He has reported on US military operations in places such as Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He lectures to military audiences, and he is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a think tank focused on defense policy. His books include Making the Corps, the bestselling Fiasco, and its follow-up The Gamble. His 2020 bestseller First Principles looks at what America's founders learned from the ancient Greeks and Romans. In 2022 he also published Waging a Good War, which covers the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968 as military history.