ABOUT THE AUTHORS:Norman Polmar is an analyst, consultant, and author specializing in naval, aviation, and intelligence issues. Since June 2008 he has been the senior Analyst for national security programs at Gryphon Technologies where he has supported Navy ballistic missile defense, shipbuilding programs, and cyber operations. Mr. Polmar has consulted on naval-related issues to three U.S. senators, the Speaker of the House, and the deputy councilor to the President, as well as to the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is the author or coauthor of more than 50 published books, including the two-volume Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events (2006, 2008).
Edward J. Marolda has served as the Director of Naval History (Acting) and the Senior Historian of the Navy at the Naval Historical Center, now Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC). He has written or edited a number of books on the U.S. Navy’s experience in Southeast Asia, including From Military Assistance to Combat, 1959–1965, vol. 2 (with Oscar P. Fitzgerald) in the official series The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict; By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia; and Aircraft Carriers, no. 4 in the Bantam series The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War.
