Chalmers Johnson is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego and President of the Japan Pollicy Research Institute. From 1968 until 1972 he served as a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the author of The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007).