Douglas C. Waller is the diplomatic correspondent for TIME magazine. Before joining TIME in 1994, he was a defense and foreign policy correspondent for Newsweek. Before joining Newsweek in 1988, he spend 8 years working in the U.S. Congress, for Rep. Edward J. Markey and Sen. William Proxmire. He is the author of THE COMMANDOS: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers and AIR WARRIORS: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot. He holds a B.A. in English from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Urban Administration from the University of North Carolina.