William L. Nash is a retired major general in the U.S. Army who commanded the 1st Armored Division when it went to Bosnia in 1995 as the bulk of Multi-National Division (North) for a year as part of the Implementation Force (IFOR).

A Russian brigade, initially under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov, was part of that effort.

General Nash is a frequent contributor to ABCNEWS.

[1] He stated in 2006 that he believes a civil war is taking place in Iraq.

[2] He is a retired visiting lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.