President of Joe Buff Inc, "An Independent Think Tank of One" established 1997. Best-selling, six-times award winning author/commentator of fiction & non-fiction about national defense, 21st-century submarines, and effective nuclear deterrence & peacekeeping. Read my "Captain Jeffrey Fuller" future nuclear war series (DEEP SOUND CHANNEL, THUNDER IN THE DEEP, CRUSH DEPTH, TIDAL RIP, STRAITS OF POWER, and SEAS OF CRISIS) all now out as e-books, paperbacks, and hardcovers on Amazon.com and elsewhere! Follow my daily "War & Peace News Patrol" pithy posts on LinkedIn.com! Friend me on Facebook & join in my "On 21st-Century Nuclear Deterrence" discussion group there! Read my articles and op-eds written for Medium.com! Look for VOLUME 1 of my new non-fiction book series, ON 21ST-CENTURY NUCLEAR DETERRENCE: IDEAS FOR AMERICA'S "NUCLEAR POSTURE AFTER NEXT", coming March 1, 2021 on Amazon!