William M Arkin was born on May 15,1956 and is an American political commentator, best-selling author, journalist, activist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier.
12 Facts About William Arkin
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William Arkin has previously served as a military affairs analyst for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
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The administration sought the jailing of William Arkin for revealing the locations of American nuclear weapons around the world.
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William Arkin led Greenpeace International's research and action effort on the first Gulf War, being the first American military analyst to visit post-war Iraq in 1991, and the first to write about cluster bombs and about civilian casualties and the cascading effects of the bombing of electrical power.
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William Arkin was founding member of the Arms Project of Human Rights Watch and wrote their first comprehensive report on cluster bombs.
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William Arkin then provided an analysis of the causes of civilian casualties after the Kosovo war.
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William Arkin has visited war zones in the former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Israel on behalf of governments, the United Nations and independent inquiries.
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William Arkin has served as an independent consultant and held positions at the Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Defense Information, Greenpeace and Human Rights Watch.
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On October 15,2003, Arkin released video and audiotapes documenting General William Boykin's framing of the "War on Terrorism" in religious terms in speeches at churches.
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In February 2007, William Arkin responded to an NBC Nightly News report on US soldiers in Iraq who said they were frustrated by antiwar sentiment at home, and especially by people who say they support the troops, but not the war.
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William Arkin is co-author of Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, a New York Times and Washington Post best-selling non-fiction book based on a four-part 2010 series William Arkin worked on with Dana Priest.
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William Arkin has been a consultant on Iraq to the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.