ERIC C. ANDERSON was a retired member of the US Intelligence Community who served tours of duty in Hawaii, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Washington, DC. A former academic, he taught at the University of Missouri, University of Maryland, the Air Force Academy and National Intelligence University. During his career he produced more than 600 articles for the President's Daily Brief, National Intelligence Council, International Security Advisory Board and the Department of Defense. A life-long sailor and motorcycle rider, he has spent endless hours on boats and put over 300,000 miles on a variety of Harley-Davidsons. Eric Anderson passed away on October 5, 2018. His vast literary contributions, from his fiction writing to his understanding of the complex intelligence and military challenges facing Western democracies, are incalculable.