Robert D EldridgeRobert D. Eldridge is the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G-7 (Government and External Affairs), Marine Corps Installations Pacific. Eldridge earned his doctoral degree at Kobe University and regularly speaks on disaster planning and response beforeaudiences in Japan. He is the author of numerous titles, including most recently The Origins of U.S. Policy in the East China Sea Islands Dispute: Okinawa's Reversion and the Senkaku Islands (Routledge, 2013), Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s: From Isolation to Integration (Routledge, 2011), and Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima (Naval Institute, 2011). Read More Read Less