Early Life and Military Career
Rawles was born in Livermore, California in 1960 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University. He was a United States Army Military Intelligence officer, serving from 1984 to 1993. He resigned his commission as a U.S. Army Captain immediately after Bill Clinton became President of the United States. Rawles worked as an Associate Editor and Regional Editor (for the Western U.S.) with Defense Electronics magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990s and concurrently was Managing Editor of The International Countermeasures Handbook. He worked as a technical writer through most of the 1990s with a variety of electronics and software companies including Oracle Corporation. In 2005 he began full-time blogging. On his book covers and in his blog, he presents his name with a comma, as James Wesley, Rawles.
He is now a freelance writer, blogger and retreat consultant. He has been called a "survival guru" and the "conscience of survivalism." Rawles is best known as the author of the survivalist novel Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse.
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