Colonel

Colonel James McDonough of the U.S. Army was the man chosen to head the contingent of Americans troops in Bosnia after the U.S.-brokered peace at the end of 1995. 

Billed as the new face of the U.S. Army in the wake of the Cold War, Colonel McDonough was a theorist who directed the Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies, and is now the commander of a 1,700 strong airborne force. 

Colonel McDonough is also an accomplished author – his book Platoon Leader, a Vietnam memoir, sold over 250,000 copies and was made into a movie. His second work was a textbook on modern mechanized warfare called The Defense of Hill 781, and his latest, The Limits of Glory, is novel which deals with the Battle of Waterloo. He is currently considering a novel about Rwanda, based on his experiences as leader of the U.S. task force in that country in 1994. 

A former West Point boxing champion (1968 and 1969), Colonel McDonough grew up in Brooklyn, New Work. He earned a degree in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is known as one of “the best thinkers” in the Army.