ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stuart Landersman is a retired Navy captain with thirty years of service. He served in destroyers, frigates, cruisers and amphibious warfare ships and commanded a number of destroyers. He had thirty months of combat action in the Viet Nam conflict. He had a tour of duty as aide to the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, attended the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College and National War College and has a Masters degree and a Masters license. After retiring from the Navy he worked for the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, served as a convoy commodore and taught ship handling in simulators. He lives in Coronado, California.