Jonathan Steele (born 15 Feb 1931) is a British journalist and an author of several books on international affairs.Steele was educated at King's College, Cambridge (BA) and Yale University (MA). He has reported on Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, and other countries. He was Washington Bureau Chief, Moscow Bureau Chief, and Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian. He is currently a columnist for that newspaper on international affairs. In January 2008 his book Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq was published by I.B. Tauris in the UK and Counterpoint in the US.In 2006, Steele won a Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism Special Award in honor of his career contributions.