John Robb graduated from the United States Air Force Academy Honors Program with a Bachelor of Science in Astronautical Engineering in 1985. His first focus was on joining NASA's astronaut program, but upon studying the declining state of events, he made the move into special operations.

During his military career, "John served in a tier one counter-terrorist unit that worked closely with Delta and Seal Team 6. John participated in global operations as a mission commander, pilot, and mission planner (El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Egypt, etc.)," according to his bio .

He resigned his Air Force commission with the rank of Major in August 1992. He is currently 46.

In March 2004, John Robb started his blog Global Guerrillas in an effort to catalog and describe the evolution of system disruption and open-source warfare within the Iraqi Insurgency and around the world.

First published an Op-Ed in the New York Times, later followed by an article in Fast Company, based on a Global Guerrilla driven worldview.

In April/May 2007, his book Brave New War was published by John Wiley and Sons, based on his Global Guerrillas work. He has since begun his book on Resilient Communities.