Edward N. Luttwak is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and an International Associate at the Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy of Japan’s Ministry of Finance. He has long been an adviser to United States and European industrial corporations. Luttwak has served as consultant to the National Security Council, the White House Chief of Staff, the State Department, and the Department of Defense. His books, which include The Pentagon and the Art of War, have been translated into fifteen languages.