Daniel R. Green

Daniel R. Green, PhD, is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development within the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the U.S. Department of Defense. His office developed national defense strategy, defense planning guidance, and various defense planning scenarios. He is the author of The Valley's Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban; In the Warlords' Shadow: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and their Fight Against the Taliban; and Front Toward Enemy: War, Veterans, and the Homefront, and co-author of Fallujah Redux: The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle with Al-Qaeda.