Jack Guy

Teacher, Soldier, and Grandfather. Directly commissioned into the Infantry in 1978 following seven years of enlisted service, Jack Guy spent a total of 38 years in the U.S. Army, active and reserve. Today, Mr. Guy focuses largely on the cognitive impact of hybrid warfare, influence operations, and open warfare on the people in conflict zones. But Mr. Guy’s first area of focus has always been Russia. Since his days as a university student in the Soviet Union in 1970, he has focused his energy on that country’s history, psychology, literature, and political structures. In the past twenty years his chief interest has been its government’s reliance on hybrid warfare, maskirovka, and political repression nationally and internationally. His work in Ukraine prior to the invasion and his training in psychological operations fed his desire to understand the cognitive impact of the current regime’s expressions of power on its people, the state’s institutions, and the world.

Today, Mr. Guy serves as an adjunct instructor at the Joint Special Operations University located at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, while also lecturing and mentoring in psychological operations at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany, lecturing at the Portuguese War College (IUM), and consulting for a variety of organizations and agencies. Since 2013, Mr. Guy has traveled and taught extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Central and South America focusing on counterinsurgency, resistance and resilience training, psychological operations, and civil military operations.

Mr. Guy retired from the U.S. Army in December 2008 as a Colonel of Special Forces and Psychological Operations, having commanded Special Operations units from the detachment to the joint task force level spending significant time working in conflict zones. Mr. Guy returned to Afghanistan as the Senior Information Operations Advisor on the Commander’s Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team (CAAT) in 2010 and then as the Country Lead for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through the end of 2012 testing new technologies in support of the mission there. It was here that Mr. Guy began his study of Artificial Intelligence and its effects on influence operations and their measures of effectiveness. Additionally, Colonel Guy was named the Honorary Colonel of the PSYOP Regiment at Ft. Bragg where he was also named a Distinguished Member of the Regiment.

Mr. Guy’s “day job” was as a teacher in a private girls school where he taught United States history and government, economics, chemistry, and Russian. A former Senior Fellow with the James Madison Fellowship Foundation, Mr. Guy spent the summer of 2000 in Hungary and Poland as part of a Fulbright Seminar. He holds undergraduate degrees in History (Russian Area Studies) and Language Education (Russian) and master’s degrees in education (Policy and Leadership) and Constitutional History from the Ohio State University. He also has a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College and a certificate from the Defense Language Institute in Russian.

He has been married to Cynthia Ann Price for over 50 years, and they have three daughters, six grandsons, and two granddaughters.