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Originally from Galveston Texas, he entered the US Military Academy in 1955 from Virginia. For the next 26 years he served in a number of positions in HAWK air defense and field artillery units. He served with the 38th Air Defense Brigade in Korea, and the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam. He commanded the 1st Battalion 16th Field Artillery Battalion at Ft. Hood Texas and Grafenwohr, Germany. He also served as the Deputy Commander of III Corps Artillery at Ft. Sill OK, with his final assignment being Inspector General of Ft. Sill. After language training in Washington, he began his alternate career as a foreign area specialist in 1967, entering the American University of Beirut, and spent the next three years traveling and studying the Middle East, receiving an MA in Arab Studies in 1970. . He also served as a liaison officer to the British Trucial Oman Scouts, operating in the Arab Gulf. He was subsequently the Army Attaché assigned to the US embassy in Amman Jordan during the Jordanian-Palestinian civil war and later (1981-1983), as Chief of the Army Section of the Office of Military Cooperation in Cairo Egypt. He was in attendance at the military parade when President Sadat was assassinated.
Following his retirement in 1985, Colonel De Atkine worked as a Middle East military analyst under contract to the analytical Branch of the CIA for several years. From 1988 until March of 2006 he instructed at the Special Warfare Center and School at Ft Bragg NC as Director of Middle East Studies. During this time he has continued his study of the Middle East with frequent visits to Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq twice in 2003-2004 serving with a psychological operations unit. With the exception of Libya he has visited every Middle Eastern country, including Iran in the late sixties. Since 2006 he has worked for a number of firms doing analytical and instructional work including senior analyst in the Iraqi Cell of DIA until September 2008.He continues to brief units and teams and teams deploying to the Middle East and do instruction for special operations units as a consultant He has written a number of articles for Parameters, The Middle East Quarterly, Academic Questions, Special Warfare, Crisis, American Diplomacy, Naval Institute Proceedings, Army, and other periodicals with a Middle East interest.
He is married with three daughters, four grand daughters and one grandson.
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