Lt. Col. Michael E. Silverman (ret) is a veteran with 25 years of experience with the United States Army.  He commanded the Third Battalion, Sixty-Ninth Armor deploying the battalion to Ramadi, Iraq where they were instrumental in the Battle for Ramadi and served as an example of the “Surge” counterinsurgency tactics that ultimately defeated al Qaeda in Iraq.  Click here for more details.

His First book, Awakening Victory: How Iraqi Tribes and American Troops Reclaimed al Anbar and Defeated al Qaeda in Iraq, will be in bookstores September, 2011.  Keep watching for updates.