AUSA Noon Report: The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780.

Rick Atkinson, Author
Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of eight works of narrative military history, including The Fate of the Day, The Guns at Last Light, The Day of Battle, An Army at Dawn, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade. He also was the lead essayist in Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery, published by National Geographic. He was a reporter, foreign correspondent, war correspondent, and senior editor at The Washington Post for more than twenty years. His many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for history and journalism, the George Polk Award, the George Washington Prize, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Jerry O’Keefe, AUSA Senior Fellow
Jerry O'Keefe is a Director in Grant Thornton's public sector practice. Jerry started at Grant Thornton March of 2019 after 37 years of combined service as an Army Officer and Department of the Army Civilian/SES. Jerry’s last job in the Army was as the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. In that role Jerry was a Principal Official of Headquarters, Department of the Army and served as the senior career civilian and senior executive in the Department of the Army overseeing a myriad of programs and functions in the Army and in the Pentagon to include chairing the Department of Defense Concessions Committee from 2013-2018. Jerry also serves as an AUSA Senior Fellow and is on the Board of the Civilian Marksmanship Program.