Thomas Bruneau is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He has conducted seminars throughout Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Southeast Europe on democratic civil-military relations for the Center for Civil-Military Relations. He has recently published Patriots for Profit: Contractors and the Military in U.S. National Security (2011), Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central America edited with Lucía Dammert and Elizabeth Skinner (2011), and The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations edited with Cris Matei (2012).