James S. (“Jim”) Major was born and raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Earning a bachelor’s degree in English at the U. of Southern Mississippi, he entered the U.S. Army as a green 2nd Lt, progressing in the Military Intelligence (MI) branch through the unfortunate title Major Major, retiring in 1988 as a Lieutenant Colonel. In the Army, Jim was an Airborne Ranger, and served at Fort Benning, GA; Munich, West Germany; Fort Holabird, MD; and Pleiku, Vietnam (1967). He studied the Indonesian language at Monterey, CA (1969); spent 1970 in Bandung, West Java, at the Indonesian Army Command & General Staff College; and returned to Ohio University, where he earned a Master’s Degree in International Affairs in 1972, specializing in Indonesia and Southwest Asia. He then served three years as the Korea Desk Officer (only 3,300 miles from Indonesia!) in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at Arlington Hall Station, VA. After other assignments stateside and abroad, he joined the faculty of the Joint Military Intelligence College (now the National Intelligence University). Reaching the height of his incompetence, he retired from the Army in November 1988 to become Director of the College Writing Center. Upon his “final” retirement in 2005, he wrote two textbooks published by Rowman & Littlefield: Communicating with Intelligence (now in its second edition) and Writing Classified and Unclassified Papers for National Security. Jim has a son, Clay, by a previous marriage, and a granddaughter born in 2002. They live near Omaha, Nebraska. Jim and his wife Joan live in a retirement community in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
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