J. Keith Saliba

J. Keith Saliba is an associate professor of journalism at Jacksonville (Fla.) University. He is the author of "Death in the Highlands: The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me," a Military Writers Society of America 2021 gold medal winner in history, which tells the October 1965 story of a handful of American Special Forces troopers and their Montagnard allies pushed to the brink at a remote outpost in Vietnam's Western Highlands. As a vastly superior North Vietnamese force tightened its grip on the tiny camp, the life-and-death struggle would ultimately usher in the first major clashes between the U.S. and North Vietnamese armies, culminating in the brutal Ia Drang Valley battles a few weeks later.