Robin Moore

Robert Lowell Moore Jr. or Robin Moore (1925 - ) is the author of a number of popular non-fiction military histories such as The Green Berets and police detective novels such as The French Connection, both of which were made into feature length films. A resident of the United States, Moore is the first and only civilian to be permitted to go through the Special Forces qualifiaction course at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

His works reveal a fascination with heroic male figures, supplemented with mysogenistic portrayals of women and political ideological conservatism. His most recent book, The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger is a non-fiction history of the part played by United States Army Special Forces in a) organizing coordination of U.S. and British air strikes with Afghan warlord militia ground attacks to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan and b) their efforts to capture Osama Bin Laden. The author assigns the Special Forces full credit for the success in defeating the Taliban but no blame for the failure to capture Osama Bin Laden. That failure is blamed on the Central Intelligence Agency, whose agents are characterized as cowardly, pp. 207-208, and the careerism of United States Army Generals, including Tommy Franks and Paul T. Mikolashek, pp. 343-344. The author's contempt for women is evident in his amusement that United States backed warlord and former California Hells Angel, Said Jaffar Naderi, raped young brides on their wedding days, pp. 231-232. His political ideological conservatism is evident in his praise for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's decision to authorize the use of torture, pp. 376-377, and criticisms of U.S. Senator John Kerry, pp. 282-284, U.S. Senator Tom Daschle, pp. 316-317, and former President Bill Clinton, p. 400. The author is also highly critical of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.