John A. Gentry

John A. Gentry is an adjunct professor with Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and also teaches for the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University. He was for 12 years an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he worked mainly economic issues associated with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries; for two of those years, he was senior analyst on the staff of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning. He is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer, with most assignments in special operations and intelligence arenas. He was mobilized in 1996 and spent much of 1996 as a civil affairs officer in Bosnia. Dr. Gentry formerly taught at Columbia University, the College of International Security Affairs of National Defense University, and National Intelligence University. His research interests primarily are in intelligence and security studies. He has written or co-authored four books, edited or co-edited two other books, and written or co-authored about 40 articles and book chapters, mainly on intelligence subjects. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. He received his Ph.D. in political science from The George Washington University.