About the author

Gerald Cranwell

<p>Gerald Cranwell is a 20+ year veteran of the Information Warfare Age, starting as a Navy Cryptolinguist in the '90s and working around the world, including many conflict zones; through this, he came to understand the vital role intelligence can play in warfare, where success or failure turns on foreknowledge of enemy intentions and capabilities.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>While teaching analysis and foreign languages to military and college students, he incorporated examples from history into lesson plans and lectures; short essays on the use of intelligence in Civil War battles led to a larger study on the subject, and eventually a historical 'what-if' incorporating this research.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>When not engaged in re-fighting the Civil War with advanced analysis and intelligence-gathering techniques, he makes his home in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and son.</p>&#13; &#13; <p/>