Colonel Pete Underwood, USMC (Ret.), is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (Lexington, Virginia). He also received master’s degrees in history from Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and national policy and security studies from the Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island). His career included multiple command and staff assignments in the Far East, the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as participation in Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Desert Fox and Southern Watch.

Underwood has taught history at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland) and served as Deputy Chairman of the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College. At this latter institution, he taught courses on policy, strategy, operations, and leadership. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Douglas MacArthur Foundation and Museum, and has published articles on international terrorism and World War I. He is currently working on a history of the Marine Corps in WWI.