ERIC C. ANDERSON was a member of the U.S. intelligence community who served tours in Hawaii, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Washington D.C., where his work focused on Northeast Asia-specifically China and North Korea. Among his many duties, he authored more than 600 articles for the President's Daily Brief, the National Intelligence Council, the International Security Advisory Board and the Department of Defense. Eric's career was academic as well as military. He taught at the University of Missouri, the University of Maryland, and was an assistant professor of political science at the US Air Force Academy, as well as National Intelligence University. He served as a guest speaker for a wide range of classes at Harvard University, and was an active participant in the pre-eminent professional development program for public sector executives at the Kennedy School of Government. Eric Anderson passed away on October 5, 2018. His vast literary contributions, from his fiction writing to his understanding of the complex intelligence and military challenges facing Western democracies, are incalculable.