John Schindler
John Schindler
John Schindler is National Security Columnist for the New York Observer.
Education
Schindler holds a B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. from McMaster University. [1]
Career
Schindler was previously a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught courses on security, strategy, intelligence, terrorism, and military history.
Before joining the U.S. Naval War College faculty, he worked for 10 years at the National Security Agency as an intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer. His focus was on Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Schindler served as an officer specializing in cryptology in the U.S.
Navy Reserve.
He’s been a a senior fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University and as well as the chairman of the Partnership for Peace Consortium‘s Combating Terrorism Working Group.
Schindler has written books on the Italian front in World War I, Islamist extremism in the Balkans, and an insider’s look at how Al-Qa’ida thinks and operates.
His most recent book is on the beginning of World War I on the Eastern Front.