Pascal R. Politano served twenty years in the United States Army in a variety fields such as intelligence, R&D, psychological operations, political warfare, and special operations. He was selected for the Distinguished Instructor award at the JFK Institute for Military Assistance. He was also the U.S. Senior Advisor to the Republic of Vietnam Political Warfare College. Politano lectured for eight years in English and political science for the University of Maryland in Europe. He was selected as intra-European faculty speaker on political warfare and is also a former member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He lived in the Far East, Germany, Italy, and France and has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Central America. Now retired, Politano resides in a remote area at the edge of the Adirondacks where he continues to write fiction and non-fiction.