Benjamin Berkowitz

Ben Berkowitz was a Jewish psychiatrist who served the United States military during the The Race Invasion of Earth.

Ben explained to Sam Yeager about the difference between the Race and humans. In his findings, Ben believed that one of the basis principles of Freudian analysis, sexual selection, is what influenced humans to be much better in innovations than the Race, given to the fact that the Race have periodic mating seasons meaning that their lack of sex drive is heavily related to their innovation which has gone nearly badly in their invasion of Earth. Also Ben relates the information from Straha (who was self-exiled to the Americans) of a Race probe that was sent to Earth in the 12th century, in which the Race had expected to conquer Earth much easier (in which Sam fondly stated that the Race had expected of fighting "King Arthur and Richard the Lion-Hearted". When Sam questioned as to why the Race, who had expected to face medieval knights, would bring a large amount of military wares, Ben explained that (in Straha's words) "You do not go to war without enough tools to win. This is what we had thought".