Robert L. Maginnis

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Bob Maginnis graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, the Command & General Staff College, the Defense Language School and the Army War College’s strategy course. He is an Airborne-Ranger infantry officer with service in four infantry divisions on three continents. In 1993 he served with the Pentagon group that wrote the now abandoned policy on homosexuals in the military known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Once retired from the Army he joined the Washington DC-based Family Research Council, where he rose to be the vice president for policy before returning to the Pentagon in 2002. However, Colonel Maginnis remains FRC's senior fellow for national security. Until late 2020 Colonel Maginnis served as the vice president for his contracting firm with duties at the Pentagon supervising a team of national security experts and is a security cooperation expert for the Headquarters, Department of the Army as well as instructing a course at the Army War College. Since late 2020 he began to serve as a contractor supporting security assistance issues for the Army's Secretariat. Colonel Maginnis has decades of media experience as a columnist, a Fox News military analyst and as an on-air commentator for multiple radio programs and networks to include Salem Radio Network. He is the author of nearly a thousand articles and eleven published books and contributed chapters in numerous other books, the latest was released in June 2024, Out of this World.