Rawles, James Wesley: - James Wesley, Rawles is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and a three-time New York Times bestselling author. Many of his novels and nonfiction books have been translated, into nine languages. His U.S. Army experience included attending the Northern Warfare School short course, at Fort Greely, Alaska. For nearly 20 years, Rawles has been the Editor of SurvivalBlog.com, the Internet's best-known blog on family preparedness. SurvivalBlog is posted daily, and its full archives of 39,000+ articles and posts are available free of charge.