David Wood

2001

David Wood is a national security correspondent for Newhouse News Service. In 30 years as a reporter, Wood has written widely about the trauma of war and the effects of violence on those who inflict and those who suffer is consequences.

His book The Rangers: Can American Kids Kill With the Best?, published in 1998, provides a compelling look at the physical and psychological preparation of soldiers in the Army's elite assault unit. He has won the Gerald Ford Prize for Distinguished Defense Reporting.