Roger Howard is a journalist and author writing on international relations and is an associate editor of an international magazine on intelligence issues.
His previous books include The Oil Hunters: Exploration and Espionage in the Middle East 1880-1939 (2008; Operation Damocles: Israel Versus Hitler's Scientists (2011)
His articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Independent on Sunday, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, New Statesman, International Herald Tribune, Jane's Intelligence Review and many other newspapers and journals.
He has a specialized knowledge of defence issues, having written for RUSI, IISS, Chatham House and Jane's Information Group.
One of his previous books has been judged as “a model of objectivity and dispassionate analysis in a publishing world where there is far too much sensationalism on such subjects” (A review in The Tablet by William Keegan of 'The Arctic Gold Rush' (Continuum, 2009).