John Guandolo

Vice President - ASIG2

John Guandolo is a national security consultant who trains communities across America to identify individuals and organizations hostile to liberty and lawfully render them ineffective while re-establishing America’s founding principles and a republican form of government at the county level. Mr. Guandolo is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and was commissioned as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He served with 2d Battalion, 2d Marines as an Infantry Platoon Commander in combat during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. From 1991 to 1996, he served in 2d Force Reconnaissance Company as a Platoon Commander, Assistant Operations Officer, and the unit’s Airborne and Diving Officer. During that time, he also deployed to the Adriatic and Bosnia. He later served for one year as the Unit Leader for the CINC’s In-Extremis Force, directly reporting to a Combatant Commander in a classified mission profile. Mr. Guandolo was a combat diver, military free-fall parachutist, and graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School. In 1996, Mr. Guandolo resigned his commission in the Marine Corps and joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving at the Washington Field Office. From 1996 to 2000, he primarily conducted narcotics investigations domestically and overseas. In 2001, he served for one year as the FBI Liaison to the U.S. Capitol Police, investigating threats to high-level government officials. Shortly after 9/11, Mr. Guandolo began an assignment in the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, where he developed expertise in the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Doctrine, the global Islamic Movement, and terrorist organizations including Hamas, Al Qaeda, and others. In 2006, Mr. Guandolo was designated a Subject Matter Expert by FBI Headquarters and created and implemented the FBI’s first Counterterrorism Training Program focused on the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Doctrine, and the Global Islamic Movement. The course was recognized as groundbreaking by the FBI’s Executive Assistant Director in a brief to the Vice President’s National Security Staff. For his efforts, Mr. Guandolo was presented the Defender of the Homeland Award in 2007 by U.S. Senators Jon Kyl and Joseph Lieberman on behalf of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. While with the FBI, he also received two United States Attorney’s Awards for Investigative Excellence. Mr. Guandolo also served as the Team Leader for the FBI SWAT Team at the Washington Field Office. He was a certified Undercover Agent, a Nationally Registered Paramedic, a First Aid Instructor, and an FBI Advanced Capability Medic. In 2008, he was recruited out of the FBI by the Department of Defense to conduct strategic analysis on the Global Islamic Movement. During this time, he briefed senior U.S. government officials, including directors of intelligence agencies, chairmen of key committees in Congress, numerous generals and admirals, and others. He has also served as a guest lecturer at the Joint Forces Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. In 2009, Mr. Guandolo created a two-week Train the Trainer program to teach others how to share and teach the details of America’s founding principles, the threat from the Islamic Movement, communist movements, their collaborators and financiers, and how to defeat these enemies of liberty. In 2012, he created Understanding the Threat to continue the work he began inside the government. In 2014, Mr. Guandolo was inducted into the International Who’s Who for his work in the field of national security. Mr. Guandolo is the co-author of Shariah: The Threat to America and the author of Raising a Jihadi Generation and Islam’s Deception: The Truth About Sharia. He has also produced numerous films and videos and has written articles on the threats from Islamic and communist movements inside the United States. Mr. Guandolo was knighted into the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, Ecumenical Order, also known as the Knights of Malta. He is a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, and the Force Reconnaissance Association. 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 www.JohnGuandolo.com.

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