General Audino serves as President of the CEO Business Alliance. He simultaneously hosts The Frontlines Report, America’s largest military radio talk show. He is also a member of the Defense Advisory Panel at the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Military Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, and sits on the Board of Governors for the University of Kurdistan – Hawler. He previously served as District Director for U.S. Congressman Michael Waltz (FL6).  He has contributed to the National Review, the Washington Times and many other media outlets, national and international, where he provides commentary and analysis on national security, foreign policy, strategy, leadership, and the Middle East.  He is the only US general officer to have previously served a full year as a combat advisor embedded inside a Kurdish peshmerga brigade in Iraq.  He is completing a book on that experience.  It expresses key portions of the remarkable Kurdish story of triumph over atrocity, endurance under chemical weapons and freedom after genocide. 

General Audino graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1983 and retired from the Army in 2011.  He served multiple assignments in armor, cavalry, infantry and Stryker units. Staff assignments include, among others, service as an Army Congressional Fellow in the US Senate, duty as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Director of Nuclear Support at the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency.  His last assignment was as the Deputy Director of Operations for Headquarters, US Army, in the Pentagon. 

He considers his most significant assignment to be his service in Iraq where he commanded a team of combat advisors embedded in 3rd Infantry Brigade, 4th Division of the Iraqi Army.  His brigade was formed entirely from Kurdish peshmerga and missioned to conduct counterinsurgency operations.

His education includes:

            Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, West Point

            Master of Law, Cum Laude, Vermont Law School

            Juris Doctorate, Vermont Law School

            Master of National Security and Strategic Studies, US National War College