Benjamin Crocker Works

Executive Director

The Strategic Issues Research Institute

(703) 415 - 1191

www.siri-us.com

Mr. Works, a lightly-decorated, enlisted Vietnam Veteran, served as CBS Radio Network's principal military analyst during `Desert Storm' from 16 Jan - 6 March 1991, during the `Restore Hope' landings in Mogadishu of December 1992, and during the January 1993 No-Fly Zone Crisis in Iraq. Since early 1991, he has also been a featured analyst for CBS Radio stations, commenting in over 3,000 radio appearances of from 3-50 minutes, covering military and diplomatic affairs. Subjects have included US Defense and National Security matters, Terrorism, the Evolution of Russia and China, and on ongoing operations in South Korea, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Iraq and Somalia. CBS stations include Chicago (WBBM & WMAQ), Dallas (KRLD), Detroit (WWJ), Los Angeles (KNX), Minneapolis (WCCO), New York (WCBS), St. Louis (KMOX), Salt Lake (KSL), San Francisco (KCBS), Seattle (KIRO) and Washington, DC (WTOP). He also appeared many times as a guest analyst and consultant for the CBS TV Network News program `CBS-Up to the Minute'.

During the "War On Terrorism (2001) Works has provided commentary to FoxNews, WRKO-Boston, CFRB-Toronto, KIRO, KCBS,  WTOP, and other radio stations.

He has also appeared in frequent discussions with David Asman of FoxNews Cable regarding ongoing operations against Saddam Hussein, the Kosovo War of 1999 and other matters of vital national interest. During the Iraq "Operation Desert Fox" of Dec. 1998, and the Yugoslav bombing campaign of 1999, Mr. Works has consulted, again, to CBS Radio News and has appeared on FoxNews Channel shows including "The Crier Report," "The O'Reilly Factor" and on "Hannity and Colmes."

Mr. Works publishes an Internet Newsletter, "Strategic Issues Today" and news service through the Institute. The Strategic Issues Research Institute (SIRIUS), founded by Mr. Works and his associates in 1990, is a small, independent `Think Tank,' located in New York City. SIRIUS is dedicated to the better understanding of Foreign and Military Affairs to further the understanding and in the interests of the American citizen, taxpayer, investor and corporate manager.

Works has been a guest lecturer in Strategy to The Naval Wargame Center at the US Naval War College, Newport, RI; and the US Army's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He has lectured at Manhattan, Queens and Baruch Colleges in New York City.

Works also consults to businesses in Defense industries and to others on investment policies in emerging Asian and former Soviet Republics through the Institute and through other consultancies. From 1974 until 1990, Mr. Works was an international banker and investment banker in New York and Boston, specializing in oil and other vital commodities, and was a registered representative in investment securities and commodity future, giving him over 23 years experience in analyzing oil and capital markets. Employers include Bankers Trust Company, Bank of Boston and Arthur D. Little, Inc.

Works is currently completing an anthology of Sense & Nonsense through the centuries, tentatively entitled, LESSONS LEARNED: Public Wisdom and Popular Follies Through the Ages from 3000 BC to the Present. He has authored an article for and co-edited with Henry F. Carey, PhD, an anthology of political science essays, National Reconciliation in Eastern Europe, to be published by Columbia University in 2002.

For his service as an aerial reconnaissance specialist in Vietnam (1969-70), Mr. Works holds The Air Medal and Army Commendation Medal and has earned an AB in History from Yale (1974) and an MBA from Boston University (1981).