Mackubin Thomas Owens is a senior national security fellow ... at the U.S. Naval War College from 1987 to 2015. He is the author of US Civil–Military Relations after 9/11: Renegotiating the ...

Owen Thomas is the editor-in-chief of ReadWrite. Before joining ReadWrite, he was previously the West Coast editor of Businesss Insider. Don't expect to run up a tab on Square in Starbucks.

Owen joined the Monitor in 1977 as a summer copykid and placed his first essay with The Home Forum before he was hired permanently that fall.