On August 4, Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Elliot Ackerman published an article entitled, “How Being an Intelligence Officer Made Me a Better Writer,” with The Free Press. In the piece, Ackerman details how his career as a veteran of the Marine Corps and CIA special operations has informed his fiction writing.
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