Editing Brian Haig

{{short description|American novelist}}

{{BLP sources|date=February 2011}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Brian Haig
| birth_name         = Brian Fox Haig
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1953|3|15}}
| party              = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|education = [[United States Military Academy]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Public Administration|MPA]])<br> [[Georgetown University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
| father            = [[Alexander Haig]]
| mother = Patricia Fox 
| occupation         = Thriller author, [[Fox News]] military analyst
}}
'''Brian Fox Haig''' (born March 15, 1953)<ref>''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.</ref> is an American [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] author and [[Fox News]] military analyst.

==Early life and education==
Haig's father was former U.S. Secretary of State [[Alexander Haig]]; his mother is Patricia (née Fox). He has a brother Alexander and a sister Barbara.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/politics/21haig.html?pagewanted=2 Alexander M. Haig Jr., 85, forceful aide to 2 Presidents, dies]</ref>

He has a Bachelor of Science from the [[United States Military Academy]], a master's in public administration from [[Harvard]], and a master's in government from [[Georgetown University]].

==Military career==
Haig graduated from [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] in 1975 and was commissioned an infantry [[lieutenant]]. He served as a platoon leader and company executive officer in Germany, three years as an infantry company commander at [[Fort Carson]], [[Colorado]], before he was selected as an intern at the Organization of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], where he worked in the Current Operations Directorate on the [[Lebanon]] [[Multinational Force in Lebanon|peacekeeping operation]]. After graduating from Harvard with a master's degree and a specialty in [[military strategy]], he worked for three years as a global strategist on the [[United States Army|Army]] staff, where he was responsible for helping formulate the regional war plan for [[Southwest Asia]] and the global [[war plan]]s against the [[Soviet Union]]. He spent three years as the Special Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Command and Combined Forces Command in [[Seoul]]. Haig ended his military career as the special assistant to the [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]] – [[John M. Shalikashvili]], where his duties lay with the preparation of all speeches, briefings, public statements, and congressional testimonies. He retired from active duty as a lieutenant colonel in 1997.

His military awards include [[Parachutist Badge (United States)|Airborne wings]] and the [[Ranger tab]], two [[Legion of Merit|Legions of Merit]], and the [[Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)|Distinguished Service Medal]].

==After the military==
Haig retired into civilian life in 1997 to become a director and later president of ''[[Erickson Air-Crane]]'' and then spent a year as president of ''International Business Communications''. He has written articles for ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''. He is now a full-time author, and works as a Fox News military contributor.

==Published works==
*''Secret Sanction'', Warner Books (2001), {{ISBN|0-446-52743-2}}
*''Mortal Allies'', Warner Books (2002), {{ISBN|0-446-53026-3}}
*''The Kingmaker'', Warner Books (2003), {{ISBN|0-446-53055-7}}
*''Private Sector'', Warner Books (2004), {{ISBN|0-446-53178-2}}
*''The President's Assassin'', Warner Books (2005), {{ISBN|0-446-57667-0}}
*''Man In The Middle'', Warner Books (2007), {{ISBN|0-446-53056-5}}
*''The Night Crew'', Thomas & Mercer (2015), {{ISBN|1-477-82748-X}}
*''The Hunted'', Grand Central Publishing (2009), {{ISBN|0-446-19559-6}}
*''The Capitol Game'', Grand Central Publishing (2010), {{ISBN|0-446-19561-8}}
{{Further|topic=the protagonist of a series of Haig novels|Sean Drummond}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official|http://www.brianhaig.net}}

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