PETERSON PERSPECTIVE:HUMOR, WIT, AND WISDOM HIGH POWER PACKAGE

About the Book

This book is about the author's testimony to his diverse experiences both in growing to manhood and then becoming a Military Intelligence Officer and analyzing Soviet/Russian military and foreign policy.

About the Author

LTC Roy E. Peterson authored three books of poetry "Beyond Darkness and Light" (2011), "Guardian Angel" (2012), and American Heartland (2012). His wit and wisdom is evident both in the poetry and in sections providing wise sayings, adages, and lists of fun items and interests. In recent years he authored six more books of fiction, nonfiction, relationships, and juvenile literature. LTC Peterson’s American Heritage stretches back to early colonial settlers with lineage from Coburn, Backus, and Warburton. His writings bear testimony to his diverse experiences both in growing to manhood and then becoming a Military Intelligence Officer and analyzing Soviet/Russian military and foreign policy. A graduate (BA degree) from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, LTC Peterson holds three Masters degrees in Business (University of Phoenix), International Relations (University of Southern California) and Political Science (University of Arizona. His first poem was published while at Hardin-Simmons University. LTC Peterson served in the Army as Commander, Portal Monitoring, for Soviet missiles under the INF Treaty for the On-Site Inspection Agency, Military Intelligence and Security Advisor to the Army Staff in the Pentagon, Commander of a Military Intelligence Company in Germany for the 66th MI Group, and Assistant Army Attache in Moscow. Roy Peterson was selected by the US Department of Commerce as the First Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East at the newly opened US Consulate in Vladivostok, Russia and as a Visa Issuing Officer for the US Department of State. IBM offered and he accepted a position as the first IBM Regional Manager in the Russian Far East, a territory the size of the continental United States. More recently, Roy Peterson taught Elites in Government, American History Since 1945, Marketing, and Global Management for the University of Phoenix in San Diego and Southern California. He opened an international trade business and sold product to foreign countries.