David Danelo

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Program on National Security

David Danelo, a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Program on National Security, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served seven years as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps. In 2004, then-Captain Danelo served near Fallujah with the First Marine Expeditionary Force as a convoy commander, intelligence officer and provisional executive officer for a rifle company. Danelo’s first book, Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq (Stackpole:2006), was awarded the 2006 Silver Medal (Military History) by the Military Writers Society of America. His book, The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Divide (2008), was endorsed by The Economist, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and Texas Books in Review, which called it “an unequivocally compelling read.”

David Danelo
Senior Fellow
Program on National Security
Foreign Policy Research Institute
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