Mark Perry (1950 – 8 August 2021) was an American author specializing in military,intelligence, andforeign affairs analysis.^[1][2]

He authored nine books:Four Stars,^[3]Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA,^[4]A Fire In Zion: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process,^[5]Conceived in Liberty,^[6]Lift Up Thy Voice,^[7]Grant and Twain,^[8]Partners In Command,^[9]Talking To Terrorists,^[10] andThe Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur.^[11]

Perry’s articles have been featured in a number of publications includingThe Los Angeles Times,The Washington Post,The Nation,Newsday, theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, theChristian Science Monitor, andThe Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio).

Perry was a graduate ofNorthwestern Military and Naval Academy and ofBoston University.

Perry was the former co-Director of the Washington, D.C., London, and Beirut-based Conflicts Forum,^[12] which specializes in engaging with Islamist movements in the Levant in dialogue with the West. Perry served as co-Director for over five years. A detailed five-part series on this experience was published by theAsia Times in March and in July 2006.^[13] Perry served as an unofficial advisor toPLO Chairman andPalestinian PresidentYasser Arafat from 1989 to 2004.^[14][15]

Perry appeared on numerous national and international televised forums. He was a frequent guest commentator and expert onAl-Jazeera television, appeared regularly onCNN’sThe International Hour and onSpecial Assignment. Perry’s work on theCIA’s program to destabilize the Saddam Hussein regime, originally published byRegardies magazine, was the basis for an award winning BBCPanorama production of “The Intelligence War Against Iraq”. His son,Cal Perry,^[16] was a CNN Mideast correspondent andal-Jazeera's Jerusalem correspondent.

Perry’s books have met with critical acclaim fromKirkus Reviews,The Washington Post,The New York Review of Books,The New York Times,The New Yorker, and many other publications. He has served as editor of Washington D.C.’sCity Paper,^[17] andThe VVA Veteran, the largest circulation newspaper for veterans.^[18]

Perry was also Washington correspondent forThe Palestine Report,^[19] and was a senior fellow at theJerusalem Media and Communications Center.^[20]

Perry was a senior foreign policy analyst forVietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF).^[21] VVAF, an international humanitarian organization, co-founded theInternational Campaign to Ban Landmines, the 1997Nobel Peace Prize recipient.^[22] Perry served as the political director for the VVAF’s Campaign for a Landmine Free World.

Perry served as a senior analyst at theQuincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.^[23]

Israeli journalistEhud Yaari described him as "veteran anti-Israel warrior".^[24][25]

• Four Stars: The Inside Story of the Forty-Year Battle Between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and America's Civilian LeadersISBN 9780395429235
• Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA,ISBN 9780756751807
• A Fire In Zion: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, New York: Morrow, 1994.ISBN 9780688121716
• Conceived in Liberty: William Oates, Joshua Chamberlain, and the American Civil War, New York: Morrow, 1994.ISBN 9780140247978
• Lift Up Thy Voice, on theGrimké family,ISBN 9780142001035
• Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed AmericaISBN 9780679642732
• Partners In Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace, New York: Penguin Books, 2007.ISBN 9781594201059,OCLC 263426426
• Talking To Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with its Enemies, Basic Books, 2011.ISBN 9780465011179
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur. Basic Books, 2014.ISBN 9780465051687,OCLC 888557149

• Appearances onC-SPAN
• Mark Perry atLibrary of Congress, with 10 library catalog records