John W. JandoraJohn W. Jandora is Supervisory Analyst with U.S. Army Special Operations Command. He is retired from the U.S. Marine Corps at the rank of Colonel, with active service in the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. He is Adjunct Professor of International Relatons at Webster University, Fort Bragg-Pope Air Force Base, and a frequent lecturer at U.S. military schools, including the Command and General Staff College. He was twice deployed to Baghdad as a senior advisor in the Iraqi national security arena and served as Senior Advisor to the military and technical schools of the Saudi Arabian National Guard. He is the author of Militarism in Arab Society: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1997), Saudi Arabia: Cultural Behavior Handbook, and The March From Medina: A Revisionist Study of the Arab Conquests. He took his PhD in Near Eastern studies and Arabic from the University of Chicago.
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