Yochi Dreazen

Yochi J. Dreazen (born c. 1976) is an American journalist whose area of expertise is military affairs and national security.

He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including The Diane Rehm Show (NPR) and Washington Week with Gwen Ifill (PBS).

He has reported from more than three dozen countries, including China, Japan, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

[6] His work included articles about suicide among soldiers and the psychological traumas that affect veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the award citation, the judges cited the book's "detailed compassionate and compelling report from the front lines of what Dreazen calls 'the Army's third war' – its fight against the plague of military suicides in the wake of our prolonged conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.