Ann Scott Tyson

Ann Scott Tyson is the author of American Spartan: The Promise, The Mission, and The Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant, which describes the extraordinary mission of Maj. Jim Gant, a decorated Green Beret who helped change the face of the Afghanistan war when his 2009 paper “One Tribe at a Time” went viral within influential military communities, and led top U.S. commanders such as Gen. David Petraeus to use Gant’s ideas to catapult a bold new local security initiative in Afghanistan.