David J. Danelo

David J. Danelo is an American author, lecturer and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)'s National Security Program.

Danelo graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served seven years as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps. In 2004, 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.

His book, The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Divide, was awarded the 2006 Silver Medal (Military History) by the Military Writers Society of America.

Books

 * Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq (Stackpole: 2006), co-written with Steven Pressfield; ISBN 0811701646/ISBN 9780811701648


 * The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Divide (Stackpole: 2008); ISBN 0811703932/ISBN 9780811703932

Political writing

 * Compendium of Danelo's published material under the aegis of the FPRI