Robert R. Reilly is a writer and senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. He has published on topics of US foreign policy and "war of ideas". During 1968 to 1970, he served as tank platoon leader in the 1/18th Armored Cavalry at Fort Lewis, Washington. He worked in the private sector 1977 to 1981, and for The Heritage Foundation the U.S. Information Agency and as Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan during the latter's first term, 1983 to 1985. He was Senior Advisor for Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy in Berne, Switzerland. He produced and hosted a weekly talk-show on foreign policy, On the Line, for Voice of America & Worldnet TV and was director of Voice of America. He acted as Senior Advisor for Information Strategy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense during 2002 to 2006 and as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Information Ministry during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. In 2007 he was Assistant Professor of Strategic Communications, School for National Security Executive Education, National Defense University. Reilly in 2010 published The Closing of the Muslim Mind, published by ISI Books. 

October 31st, 1946 in (Age 77)