Daniel R. Green - Front toward Enemy: War, Veterans, and the Homefront

Daniel R. Green, PhD, is a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and has mobilized four times for service in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also served with the U.S. Department of State as the political advisor to a provincial reconstruction team in southern Afghanistan. He is the author of The Valleys Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban and In the Warlords Shadow: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight against the Taliban, as well as coauthor of Fallujah Redux: The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle with Al-Qaeda. He has also served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development (20192021) with the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the U.S. Department of Defense. He is a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service (2021), the Office of the Secretary of Defenses Exceptional Public Service Award (2009), the U.S. Department of States Superior Honor Award (2005), and the U.S. Armys Superior Civilian Honor Award (2005).

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