Ben Milligan is a Chicago-based writer and historian. Since the publication of his book, By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs, he has also been in high demand as a speaker and guest lecturer on leadership and American military history. His audiences have ranged from the country’s most elite military units to students at Yale University. In 2022 he was selected by the National World War II Museum to lead a tour of the D-Day battlefields in Normandy, France. He is currently har