John Guandolo

John Guandolo is the Founder of UnderstandingTheThreat.com dedicated to providing strategic and operational threat-focused consultation, education, and training for federal, state and local leadership and agencies. Mr. Guandolo is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who took a commission as an Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served with 2d Battalion 2d Marines as an Infantry Platoon Commander in combat Operations Desert Shield/Storm, and at 2d Force Reconnaissance Company for over 4...See more

John Guandolo is the Founder of UnderstandingTheThreat.com dedicated to providing strategic and operational threat-focused consultation, education, and training for federal, state and local leadership and agencies. Mr. Guandolo is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who took a commission as an Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served with 2d Battalion 2d Marines as an Infantry Platoon Commander in combat Operations Desert Shield/Storm, and at 2d Force Reconnaissance Company for over 4 years. Mr. Guandolo was a combat diver, a military freefall parachutist, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School. In 1996, Mr. Guandolo left the Marine Corps and joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), serving at the Washington Field Office. Shortly after 9/11, Mr. Guandolo began an assignment to the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI's Washington Field Office developing an expertise in the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Doctrine, and the global Islamic Movement. In 2006, Mr. Guandolo created and implemented the FBI's first Counterterrorism Training/Education Program focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood. He was designated a "Subject Matter Expert" by FBI Headquarters. For his efforts, in 2007 Mr. Guandolo was presented the "Defender of the Homeland" Award by U.S. Senators John Kyl and Joseph Lieberman on behalf of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. Mr. Guandolo served on the Washington Field Office SWAT team for over nine years, as its Team Leader for three of those years, and authored the Standard Operating Procedures for the team. After his FBI career, Mr. Guandolo worked for the Department of Defense conducting Strategic Analysis on the Global Islamic Movement. Mr. Guandolo advises governments - U.S. and others - on matters related to National Security, specifically the threat from the Global Islamic Movement. He served as an adjunct instructor at the Joint Forces Staff College and the U.S. Army War College, is one of the authors of the "Shariah - The Threat to America," the first comprehensive book on the threat from the Islamic Movement in the U.S. He is a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow, a Senior Fellow at the Centennial Institute, and is a Knight of Saint John of the Hospitallers - Ecumenical Order (Knights of Malta). Mr. Guandolo frequently appears on television and radio, and regularly publishes articles related to these matters in a number of media outlets. His website is ... See less