Tom Kratman

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Tom Kratman is an American science fiction author specializing in the subgenre of military science fiction. Kratman was born in Boston, where he attended Boston Latin before enlisting, aged 17, in the US Army. He served with the 101^st Airborne Division and in Panama with the 193^rd Infantry Brigade. He then went to Boston College on an Army scholarship. Following his graduation Kratman was commissioned as an officer in 1980 where upon he spent three more years in Panama followed by an four year stint with the 24^th Infantry Division. He was then part of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, before serving with the 5^th Special Forces Group during the Gulf War.

Kratman left the regular army in 1992, and went to law school. He graduated in 1995, but remained a member of the United States Army Reserve and also worked for MPRI. He was recalled to the Army in 2003 for the Iraq War but was found to have a problem with his heart. He then spent time at the U.S. Army War College as Director, Rule of Law, for the US Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute.

He retired in 2006 as a Lieutenant Colonel and became a full time author. He is married to a woman he met in Panama, and has three children and three grandchildren.^[1]

His works are published by Baen.