ROBERT F. DORR is an author (since 1955), an Air Force veteran (1957-60) and a retired American diplomat (1964-89). His latest book is "Air Power Abandoned," an account of what he calls the battle between Defense Secretary Robert Gates (2006-2011) and the Air Force. His first fiction is the alternate history HITLER'S TIME MACHINE. Many of his early published writings were in the men's adventure magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Bob and his wife Young Soon are the parents of two grown sons with families and live in Oakton, Virginia with their Labrador retriever, Autumn.