He has two US college degrees and worked in Europe as a military analyst until his opposition to the US/NATO sponsored wars in Chechnia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo cost him his career. He retooled as a software engineer and began writing in response to the nonsense spewed by the Western media.

The Saker knows several languages which, together with his background, provides him access to information not available in the presstitute media. He has collected articles and essays from his website and published them as a book, The Essential Saker. http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Saker-trenches-emerging-multipolar/dp/1608880583/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453053411&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Essential+Saker