Ammon School of Education at Adelphi University. He edited Enduring Freedom or Enduring War? The Prospects and Costs of the New American 21st Century (Maisonneuve Press, 2005) and wrote U.S. Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education(McFarland Press). He is completing an oral history of the Iraq War. His articles have appeared in Left History, American Diplomacy, Peace Review, ZNet, Journal of Peace Education, History News Network and elsewhere. Mirra became a peace activist while serving in the Marines during the first Gulf War.