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Christopher Brownfield served as a nuclear submarine officer aboard the USS Hartford before volunteering to go to Iraq under the Individual Augmentee (IA) program. As a nuclear-trained officer, he worked as an energy-sector liaison between coalition military forces, the U.S. Department of State and the Iraqi Government from 2006 to 2007. During this time in Iraq, he observed the worst of the insurgency and the beginnings of the surge under General Petraeus.

After returning home to New Haven, CT, Christopher left graduate school at Yale to pursue writing and international relations. He will soon move to Bologna, Italy, to study International Energy Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His first (self-published) book, Oil on Landscape, is now available. Christopher is currently finishing his second book, My Nuclear Family: Growing up with Energy & Violence, which will be released by Alfred A. Knopf in 2009.