Gregg Roman was a suburban American kid who crossed an ocean to find out whether the things he believed were true. The answer took twenty years to arrive, and it became five books.

He enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces as a foreign volunteer — the kind of soldier Israel calls a chayal boded, a lone soldier — and stayed to work inside the country’s Ministry of Defense during the years when the peace process was dying and nobody in the rooms wanted to say so. He served as an advisor to Israel’s deputy foreign minister, taught counterterrorism to cadets at West Point, and now directs a Middle East–focused research organization in Philadelphia, where his work runs from policy analysis to operations against the extremist networks most institutions only write about. He appears in international media hundreds of times a year, from Fox News and i24NEWS to the BBC and Al Jazeera.

His books make one argument five ways. The Carthage Doctrine (October 2026) states it plainly: conflicts end in decisive victory, not managed decline. The citizen-volunteer trilogy — Repaying Lafayette, Contraband Patriots, and Alone in the Ranks (2027) — supplies two and a half centuries of evidence: the Americans who fought for other nations’ freedom, the underground that armed Israel in 1948, and the lone soldiers of the IDF. And his debut novel, The Closing Window (out now), carries the argument into the reader’s chest: a thriller about a Washington think tank running live networks inside Iran as the window for action closes.

Every book he writes is one entry in the same ledger: the record of what it costs free people to stay free, and of the volunteers who pay it when governments won’t. Someone has to keep the count.
