Robert F. Dorr is an Air Force veteran (Korea, 1957–1960), a retired senior American diplomat (1964–1989), and the author of sixty books and thousands of magazine articles and newspaper columns about the Air Force and air warfare.

     He is a columnist for Air Force Times newspaper and has written for Air and Space Smithsonian, Flight Journal, Air Forces Monthly, Air Power History, and many other publications.

    His latest book is Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht (Zenith, June 2008), co-authored with Thomas D. Jones.

    Dorr lives in Oakton, Virginia, with his family and their Labrador retriever.