Thomas E. Ricks Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Thomas E. Ricks is an American writer, journalist, editor, and educator. He was born on 25 September, 1955 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States. He is best known for his books on the military and foreign policy, including Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, and The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today. Ricks attended Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1977. He then attended the University of Virginia, where he earned a master's degree in journalism in 1979. Ricks began his career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in 1979. He then moved to The Washington Post in 1982, where he covered the Pentagon and the military. He was a senior editor at The Atlantic from 2006 to 2008. Ricks has written several books on the military and foreign policy, including Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, and The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today. Ricks is currently a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As of 2021, Thomas E. Ricks's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Ricks was immensely critical of Fox News' coverage of the 2012 Benghazi attack. While being interviewed by Jon Scott, Ricks accused Fox News of being "extremely political" in its coverage of the attack and stated, "Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party." The interview was subsequently cut short after only 90 seconds. He has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, saying he should be put in prison and rhetorically asking if President Trump opposes the Constitution.

Ricks was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.

While at the Wall Street Journal, he was one of the reporters writing the "Price of Power" series discussing United States defense spending and potential changes confronting the US military following the Cold War. The series won the Journal the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He won a second Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of The Washington Post team for reporting about the beginnings of the U.S. counteroffensive against terrorism.

Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. Ricks is the author of the non-fiction books Making the Corps (1997); the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq (2006) and its follow-up, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009); and The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today (2012). He also penned a novel, A Soldier's Duty, in 2001.

After earning a B.A. from Yale University (1977), he was an instructor at Lingnan College, Hong Kong (1977–1979), and assistant editor at the Wilson Quarterly (1979–1981). At the Wall Street Journal he was a reporter (1982–1985) and deputy Miami bureau chief (1986). In Washington, D.C., he was a Journal reporter (1987–1989), feature editor (1989–1992), and Pentagon correspondent, (1992–1999). He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000–2008).

Ricks was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York and Afghanistan, one of six children. He is the son of Anne and David Frank Ricks, a professor of psychology. He attended the American International School in Kabul (1968–1970), including his freshman year of high school. He graduated from Scarsdale High School (1973).

Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist and author who specializes in the military and national security issues. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of teams from the Wall Street Journal (2000) and Washington Post (2002). He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He currently writes a blog for Foreign Policy and is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank.

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