Meet Ron Martz
Author, Journalist, and Educator
Ron had a lengthy career in the newspaper business, specializing in reporting on military affairs and international security issues. He is the co-author of six books that explore factual narratives of recent military personnel and events. With a Master's degree in Military History he obtained after retiring from a 40-plus year career as an editor and reporter for various newspapers, he served as an adjunct professor of journalism, military history, and world history at the University of North Georgia. A Marine Corps veteran, he has numerous projects in the works, including a non-fiction missing man mystery from the Vietnam War, a novel about the origins of COVID-19, and a screenplay about the drug trade in Southeast Asia in the 1980s. In the photo at the left he is in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province in 1988 checking out the gun markets that proliferated there to assist in arming the mujahadeen during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
My Books
A few photos for the curious
With my parents in Cocoa Beach, Fla., during my surfer days, around 1972.
A few days of hiking with my father on the Appalachian Trail in southern Pennsylvania, around 1984.
La Paz, El Salvador, 1985, preparing to go on patrol with the Salvadoran military during a two-month assignment in Central America reporting on U.S. military involvement there.
Atop Crazy Horse Mountain, South Dakota, with AJC photographer Andy Sharp, 1986. One of our stops in a year-long series on Native Americans.
On the road to Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, 1991.
Plain of Jars, Laos, 1993, researching the "Solitary Survivor" book with Bob Bailey.
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