John W. Jandora is the supervisory threat analyst at U.S. Army Special Operations Command, where he has served for more than 16 years. He retired as a colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve with active service in the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and has six years; resident experience in the Middle East. Dr. Jandora is currently an adjunct professor of international relations at Webster University. He is the author of two books—The March From Medina: A Revisionist Study of the Arab Conquests (Kingston Press, 1990) and Militarism in Arab Society: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1997)—and numerous scholarly articles on warfare and Middle Eastern history.