Bob Maginnis is a Washington, DC-based broadcast national security and foreign policy analyst with 22 years of extensive experience speaking on tough issues with most major broadcast and cable television and radio outlets to include Fox News and CNN. He is an author having been both a columnist for conservative outlets with more than 800 published articles on national security and geopolitical issues. His book Deadly Consequences: How Cowards Are Pushing Women into Combat was published by Regnery in 2013 and his new book, Never Submit: Will the Extermination of Christians Get Worse Before It Gets Better? is published by Defender Publishing. Maginnis was a Fox News analyst during Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as a member of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s retired military analyst program from 2002 to 2006. Bob is a long-time Pentagon insider having served as an active duty officer on the task force that wrote the homosexual exclusion policy in 1993, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and for the past 13 years he is back in the Pentagon supervising a team specializing in international affairs as well as directing the Army’s sole course training Army officers to plan engagements with foreign partners. He has extensive overseas work experience – Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. That experience helps his current service as the vice president for operations with MESMO Inc., a Maryland-based small business that specializes in language services, intelligence analysis and security cooperation for the U.S. Government. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey. His special military training includes Ranger and airborne schools, Command & General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College Strategist Course as well as the Defense Language Institute. Bob is an active evangelical Christian speaking in local churches, at conferences, and in the media. Bob and his wife have two grown children.