Ralph Peters (Author)

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Ralph Peters (* 19th April 1952 in Pottsville , Pennsylvania ) is an American retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Army of the United States , military writer , theorist and analyst and columnist . His pseudonym as an author was Owen Parry .

Life

Peters has Welsh and German roots. He grew up in Schuylkill County , Pennsylvania and studied at the State University there . In 1976 he joined the US Army. Peters was promoted to lieutenant in 1980 . It was then used in a variety of ways. a. as an intelligence analyst for the 1st Armored Division / United States Army Intelligence in several states in South America. He graduated from Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1999 . In 1988 he earned a Masters in International Relations from St. Mary's University; he also learned German and Russian.

He has been a writer since the 1980s and has received numerous awards. He is the author of numerous books (including on the American Civil War ) and has written specialist articles for military magazines. He also wrote columns for national newspapers and magazines etc. a. New York Post , The Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post , USA Today , Newsweek, and Harper's Magazine .

Peters has occasionally mapped North Korea to the Nazi regime and proposed a first nuclear weapon attack against the Kim regime.

He worked closely with the Fox News Channel for nearly four decades , where he worked as a military analyst. In March 2018, Peters quit his job as a commentator for Fox News and described in an email to employees Fox News as a “propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration”.

Peters has been married since 1994 and lives in Washington, DC

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Red Army (1989)
  • The War in 2020 (1991)
  • Faded Coat of Blue (1999)
  • Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph? (1999)
  • Beyond Terror: Strategy in Changing World (2002)
  • Honor's Kingdom (2002)
  • Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern Peace and War (2003)
  • Cain at Gettysburg (2012)
  • Hell or Richmond (2013)
  • Valley of the Shadow (2015)
  • The Damned of Petersburg (2016)
  • Judgment at Appomattox (2017)
  • Darkness at Chancellorsville: A Novel of Stonewall Jackson's Triumph and Tragedy (2019)

literature

  • Jerry K. Sweeney (Ed.): A Handbook of American Military History. From the Revolutionary War to the Present. 2nd Edition. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London 2006, ISBN 0-8032-9337-2 , p. 337.

Web links

Wikiquote: Ralph Peters  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerry K. Sweeney (Ed.): A Handbook of American Military History. From the Revolutionary War to the Present. 2nd Edition. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London 2006, ISBN 0-8032-9337-2 , p. 337.
  2. ^ Christopher Bassford : Clausewitz in America today . In: Reiner Pommerin (Ed.): Clausewitz goes global. Carl von Clausewitz in the 21st Century. Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Clausewitz Society . Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-937885-41-4 , p. 344.
  3. ^ Paul Gottfried : No, It's Not 'Moral Relativism' To Oppose Nuking North Korea . In: The American Conservative . ( theamericanconservative.com [accessed May 20, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Jacqueline Thomsen: Fox News contributor quits, slams network as 'propaganda machine' for Trump . In: TheHill . March 20, 2018 ( thehill.com [accessed September 17, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Stephen Battaglio: Lt. Col. Ralph Peters says he's 'ashamed' of Fox News and leaves his role as analyst . In: Los Angeles Times . ( latimes.com [accessed May 20, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parry, Owen (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer, military writer, theorist, and analyst, author, and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Pottsville , Pennsylvania