Gareth Porter ndi membala wa Advisory Board of World BEYOND War. Iye amakhala ku United States. Gareth ndi mtolankhani wodziyimira pawokha komanso wolemba mbiri yemwe amagwira ntchito pazachitetezo cha dziko la US. Buku lake lomaliza ndi Mavuto Opangidwa: The Untold Story ya Iran Nuclear Scare, lofalitsidwa ndi Just World Books mu 2014. Ankathandizira pafupipafupi ku Inter Press Service ku Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan ndi Pakistan kuyambira 2005 mpaka 2015. Nkhani zake zoyambirira zofufuza ndi kusindikiza kwake zimasindikizidwa ndi Truthout, Middle East Eye, Consortium News, The Nation, ndi Truthdig, ndipo adasindikizidwanso patsamba lina komanso malingaliro. Porter anali mkulu wa ofesi ya Saigon ku Dispatch News Service International ku 1971 ndipo pambuyo pake adanenanso zaulendo wopita ku Southeast Asia kwa The Guardian, Asian Wall Street Journal ndi Pacific News Service. Alinso mlembi wamabuku anayi onena za nkhondo ya Vietnam komanso ndale mu Vietnam. Wolemba mbiri Andrew Bacevich adatcha buku lake, Mavuto a Dominance: Kusayenerera kwa Mphamvu ndi Njira ya Nkhondo, lofalitsidwa ndi University of California Press ku 2005, "mosakayikira, chofunika kwambiri pa mbiri ya US chitetezo cha dziko kuti chiwoneke zaka 10 zapitazo." Waphunzitsa maphunziro a Southeast Asia ndi maphunziro apadziko lonse ku American University, City College wa New York ndi Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
