Benjamin Crocker Works

Executive Director

The Strategic Issues Research Institute

Arlington, VA

(703) 415-1191

www.siri-us.com

Benjamin C. Works, a lightly-decorated Vietnam veteran (1969-70), serves as the executive director of the Strategic Issues Research Institute, a defense, foreign affairs and energy consultancy founded in 1990. As a broadcast analyst, Mr Works served as principal military consultant on CBS Radio Network during Operation Desert Storm (1991), the Somali relief expedition (1992-93), the Bosnian war and the Haitian intervention (1992-95). He has also appeared frequently on FoxNews (Kosovo-1999) and Court TV. During Operation Iraqi Freedom Mr. Works served as principal analyst for Germany’s ARD-1 TV network and contributed analysis for 630-WMAL in Washington DC, 680-WRKO-Boston, 1010-CFRB-Toronto and 710-KIRO-Seattle.

Mr. Works holds the Air Medal and Army Commendation Medal. He is a 1974 graduate of Yale (History of Colonialism and Imperialism) and holds an MBA (finance) from Boston University and pursued a career in international banking and investment banking from 1975-1990.

Works has been a guest lecturer in Strategy to The Naval Wargame Center at the US Naval War College, Newport, RI (1990-92); and the US Army's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina (1991-93). He has lectured at Manhattan, Queens and Baruch Colleges in New York City.

Mr. Works has been published in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times.  He has also authored an article for an anthology edited by Henry F. Carey, PhD; National Reconciliation in Eastern Europe, published by Columbia University in 2003.