John Fass Morton is the author of two previous U.S. Naval Institute Press books, Mustin: A Naval Family of the 20th Century, a title on the CNO’s Book List for Leadership and Management, and Next-Generation Homeland Security: Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness. He has also authored Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport ’56. For over 30 years, he was a Washington-based national and homeland security consultant, journalist and regular contributor to virtually every major defense publication, in addition to Proceedings. He lives in Annapolis, Md.

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