Iain King

Iain Benjamin King is a British writer. King was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours, for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo. He is a Scholar at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point, and a former Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and at Cambridge University. and co-authored a book on the history of Kosovo and the difficulties of post-war state-building in the Balkans, called Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo.

His 2008 book, How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time: Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong, starts with a history of moral philosophy and then develops a hybrid methodology for ethical decision-making. King's approach has been described as quasi-utilitarian, and credited with reconciling competing systems of ethics.

Secrets of The Last Nazi, based on extensive research of the Nazi era, was King's debut novel, first published in 2015. A sequel followed in 2016.

King has been featured as a foreign policy analyst on CNN and BBC, Defense One, Prospect,