Welcome to the Web site of author and Iraq War veteran Craig Trebilcock.  Through this website you can read articles by the author about the Iraq War and national security issues, send the author a message, or order any of his books.
 
As an officer in the US Army during the 1990s,  Craig began writing professional articles on US military and strategic issues.  It quickly became apparent that he possessed neither a traditional view toward such matters, nor an interest in parroting the status quo.  Following his deployment to the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent postwar reconstruction mission (2003-04), Craig began to write fiction as a means of conveying his unvarnished and sometimes provocative viewpoints of how the "War on Terror" is changing our society, its military structure, and America's soldiers.

Returning home in 2004, Craig observed that the Iraq War story told at home by the media and beltway-bound politicians bore little resemblance to what he had seen.  He began writing his 2006 debut novel, One Weekend A Month, as a way of communicating the tough realities of the Iraq mission.  "My target audience is the troops who know the war, their families, and those citizens who are not satisfied to accept watered down fairy tales of the Iraq War."  One Weekend A Month presented an unsettling picture of dedicated Army Reserve soldiers struggling to stabilize post-war Iraqi society, while remote policy makers were prematurely searching for ways to declare victory and enhance career advancement.

Craig's writings focus on a soldier's viewpoint of our military operations, devoid of political window-dressing.  Those looking for validation that the Iraq War was either a complete waste of time, or the essential keystone of our future national survival, are in the wrong place.  As is often the case, the truth lies in the murky, grey zone in the middle, where absolutism withers.  Those seeking a gritty, complex, and unapologetic soldier's account of the Iraq War are invited to keep reading.  

*General disclaimer - [a disclaimer for any Generals reading this site]. All comments on this site and in Craig's writings are his personal views in his civilian capacity, and are not those of the US Army, DOD, nor are they made in the context of the author's service in the US Army Reserve. 

"It may be the best-written article on Iraq and the Iraqi people I've read since the war began."
Brian Williams, Anchor, NBC Nightly News, 3/21/07 on Craig Trebilcock's February 2007 article in Army Magazine, The Modern Seven Pillars of Iraq.

Craig [writes] an incisive, biting, unflinchingly honest tale that illuminates the real stories of our misadventure in Iraq.
-Bernard Edelman, Editor - Dear America: Letters Home from Viet Nam, reviewing One Weekend A Month