William Arkin
William M. Arkin served in the United States Army from 1974 to 1978. He received a BS from the University of Maryland. He has held positions at the Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Defense Information, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Human Rights Watch. He has worked as a NBC News military analyst and written columns for the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. He is currently Policy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University, USA.
In 1985, he wrote The Nuclear Battlefields: Global Links in the Arms Race, which revealed the location of nuclear bases throughout the world.
In February 2007, Mr. Arkin made incindiary remarks in a Washington Post blog, calling United States service men and women "mercenaries" in Iraq. His comments were widely denounced and a potential boycott of NBC has been proposed by several right wing conservative pundits.